gEdit

Copyright (c) 1998, 1999 Alex Roberts and Evan Lawrence

This program and the documentation are free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

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1. Table of contents

1. Table of contents
2. Introduction
3. Use
4. Feedback

2. Introduction

gEdit is a basic text editor that also allows you to perform most functions associated with text editing such as copying, pasting, and searching through a document. gEdit also has such functions as Reverse, which reverses all the text in a document, and Email, which allows you to mail the current document direcly through gEdit. gEdit unlike Microsoft's Notepad allows you to open multiple documents at a time and has a handy tabbed interface for switching between documents. gEdit like Notepad and many other text editors works with ASCII files, and offers no text formatting commands.

3. Use

• File
  • New - Creates a new file.
  • Open - Opens an existing file.
  • Save - Saves the current file. If the file has already been named, saves with the existing name. If not, acts as Save As.
  • Save As - Saves the current file and prompts for the name and location to save the file in.
  • Recent File List - Shows the last three files opened.
  • Print - Prints the current file.
  • Close - Closes the current file. If the file has been changed, promts to save the file.
  • Close All - Closes all open files. Promts to save changed files.
  • Exit - Exits gEdit, and closes all open files. Promts to save changed files.
• Edit
  • Cut - Cut moves the selected text to a temporary location where it can then be place in another location or locations.
  • Copy - Copies the selected text to a temporary location where it can then be placed in another location or locations.
  • Paste - Places cut or copied text at the current location.
  • Select All - Selects all text in the current document.
  • Find Line - Searches for a linue number.
  • Find - Searches for text.
  • Find Again - Runs the previous search again.
  • Replace - Replaces text with alternate text.
• Plugins (See file README.plugins for more info on Plugins)
  • Test Selection
  • Spell Check
  • Reverse
  • Project Manager
  • Open Header|Code
  • View In Browser
  • Hello
  • Email
  • Diff
  • Encryption
  • CVS Diff
  • Convert
  • Browse
• Settings
  • Autoindent - Autoindent indents the new lines like the previous line.
  • Statusbar - Shows a statusbar at the bottom of the screen. The statusbar shows what column you are currently on, and offers the line button which, when clicked, shows how many total lines the document contains and which line you are currently on.
  • Wordwrap - Doesn't split a word at the end of the line, but starts the word on the next line.
  • Linewrap - Keeps all text in the window by wrapping the current line at the window borders.
  • Readonly - Makes the file readonly.
  • Splitscreen - Allows you to look at different parts of the current document at the same time.
  • Document Tabs - Allows you to move the location of the tabs which show the currently open documents.
    • Top
    • Bottom
    • Left
    • Right
    • Show Tabs
  • Save Settings - Saves the settings.
  • Preferences - Shows preferences.
• Windows
  • Create New Window - Opens another gEdit window with a blank document inside.
  • Close this Window - Closes the current gEdit window.
  • Document List - Displays a list of the currently open documents.
• Help
  • About Gives basic information about gEdit.

Right-click context menus also allow you the following commands:

• Cut - See above.
• Copy - See above.
• Paste - See above.
• Open in new window - Opens the current file in a new Window.
• Save - See above.
• Close - See above
• Print - See above
• Open (swap) .c/.h file - Switches between two open files with the extension of either h or c.

• Control+Left Arrow/Right Arrow - Moves the cursor one word to the left or right.
• Control+Delete - Deletes the word to the right of the cursor.
• Control+Backspace - Deletes the word to the left of the cursor.
• Control+C - Copies the selected text.
• Control+X - Cuts the selected text.
• Control+V - Pastes text.
• Control+Q - Quit. Does the same as Exit from the File menu.
• Control+S - Saves the file.
• Control+A - Moves to the beginning of the line.
• Control+B - Moves the cursor back one character.
• Control+D - Deletes the character to the right of the cursor.
• Control+F - Moves the cursor one character to the right.
• Control+K - Deletes everything to the right of the cursor on the current line.
• Control+L - Lists the currently open files.
• Control+W - Deletes the word to the left of the cursor.
• Control+E - Moves the cursor to the end of the current line.
• Control+U - Deletes the current line.

4. Feedback

You can check the current status and/or get the latest stable release of gEdit via WWW at http://gedit.pn.org.   The most recent version is also available at the Gnome CVS repository in module gedit.

Comments, ideas and (most of all) bug reports (and especially patches) are very welcome at the above e-mail address.