gedit/plugins/list-of-gedit-plugins.md

gedit plugins

Core plugins

Plugins that are distributed with gedit itself.

• Document Statistics - Report the number of words, lines and characters in a document.
• External Tools - Execute external commands and shell scripts.
• File Browser Panel - Easy file access from the side panel.
• Insert Date/Time - Inserts current date and time at the cursor position.
• Modelines - Emacs, Kate and Vim-style modelines support for gedit.
• Python Console - Interactive Python console standing in the bottom panel.
• Quick Highlight - Highlights every occurrences of selected text.
• Quick Open - Quickly open files.
• Snippets - Insert often-used pieces of text in a fast way.
• Sort - Sorts a document or selected text.
• Spell Checker - Checks the spelling of the current document.

gedit-plugins package

The gedit-plugins package contains useful plugins that are (most of the time) too specific to be distributed with gedit itself.

• Bookmarks - Easy document navigation with bookmarks
• Bracket Completion - Automatically adds closing brackets.
• Character Map - Insert special characters just by clicking on them.
• Code Comment - Comment out or uncomment a selected block of code.
• Color Picker - Pick a color from a dialog and insert its hexadecimal representation.
• Color Scheme Editor - Source code color scheme editor
• Draw Spaces - Draw spaces and tabs
• Embedded Terminal - Embed a terminal in the bottom pane.
• Git - Highlight lines that have been changed since the last commit
• Join/Split Lines - Join several lines or split long ones
• Multi Edit - Edit document in multiple places at once
• Session Saver - Save and restore your working sessions
• Smart Spaces - Forget you’re not using tabulations.
• SyncTeX - Synchronize between LaTeX and PDF with gedit and evince.
• Text Size - Easily increase and decrease the text size
• Word Completion - Word completion using the completion framework

Third-party plugins

There are also third-party gedit plugins.