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*gedit also has colour-coded highlighting for all sorts of things including perl. It can be activated either by going to View / Highlight Mode / Scripts while editing a file, or by saving your file with an extension such as .plx which gedit recognises as being a perl script.
 
*gedit also has colour-coded highlighting for all sorts of things including perl. It can be activated either by going to View / Highlight Mode / Scripts while editing a file, or by saving your file with an extension such as .plx which gedit recognises as being a perl script.
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*An advanced editing plugin for Gedit allows to remove or reduce whitespace in the code: [http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/AdvancedEditingPlugin]
  
 
[[Category: Editors]]
 
[[Category: Editors]]

Revision as of 23:34, 11 April 2009

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gedit is a GUI (not command-line) editor available with Gnome on Linux.

By default, gedit uses Unix line endings, so this should not need changing.

Tabs can be changed into spaces in Edit / Preferences / Editor by selecting the "insert spaces instead of tabs" tickbox.

Also useful

  • Edit / Preferences / View has a "Display line numbers" tickbox which can be very helpful when error-hunting
  • gedit also has colour-coded highlighting for all sorts of things including perl. It can be activated either by going to View / Highlight Mode / Scripts while editing a file, or by saving your file with an extension such as .plx which gedit recognises as being a perl script.
  • An advanced editing plugin for Gedit allows to remove or reduce whitespace in the code: [1]