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- General Information
- ===================
-
- This is version 2.28.0 of gedit. gedit is a small and lightweight UTF-8 text
- editor for the GNOME environment.
-
- gedit is part of GNOME and uses the latest GTK+ and GNOME libraries.
- Complete GNOME integration is featured, with support for Drag and Drop (DnD)
- from Nautilus (the GNOME file manager), the use of the GNOME help system,
- the GNOME Virtual File System and the GNOME print framework.
-
- gedit uses a Multiple Document Interface (MDI), which lets you edit more than
- one document at the same time.
-
- gedit supports most standard editing features, plus several not found in your
- average text editor (plugins being the most notable of these).
-
- gedit plugins may also be written in the python scripting language: to enable
- python support you need the pygtk and gnome-python-desktop bindings.
-
- Although new features are always under development, currently gedit has:
-
- * Complete support for UTF-8 text
- * Syntax highlighting
- * Support for editing remote files
- * Search and Replace
- * Printing and Print Previewing Support
- * File Revert
- * A complete preferences interface
- * Configurable Plugin system, with optional python support
-
-
- Some of the plugins, packaged and installed with gedit include, among others:
-
- * Word count
- * Spell checker
- * Change case of selected text
- * File Browser
- * Automatic snippet expansion
- * Sort
- * Insert Date/Time
- * External Tools
- * Tag list
-
- Other external plugins are also available.
-
-
- gedit is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2, see
- the file 'COPYING' for more information.
-
-
- The official web site is:
-
- http://www.gedit.org
-
- You can download the latest gedit tarball from:
-
- http://download.gnome.org/sources/gedit/
-
- Information about gedit mailing lists can be found at
-
- http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gedit-list
-
-
- Installation
- ============
-
- gedit requires GTK+-2.16.x, GtkSourceView 2.4.x and GConf libraries.
- PyGobject 2.12.x, PyGtk 2.12.x and PyGtkSourceView 2.4.x are required to
- enable python plugins support.
-
- Simple install procedure:
-
- % gzip -cd gedit-2.28.0.tar.gz | tar xvf - # unpack the sources
- % cd gedit-2.28.0 # change to the toplevel directory
- % ./configure # run the `configure' script
- % make # build gedit
- [ Become root if necessary ]
- % make install # install gedit
-
- See the file 'INSTALL' for more detailed information.
-
-
- How to report bugs
- ==================
-
- Bugs should be reported to the GNOME bug tracking system.
- (http://bugzilla.gnome.org, product gedit). You will need to create an
- account for yourself.
-
- You can also report bugs using the GNOME program bug-buddy.
-
- In the bug report please include:
-
- * Information about your system. For instance:
-
- - What operating system and version
- - What version of X
- - What version of the gtk+, glib and gnome libraries
- - For Linux, what version of the C library
-
- And anything else you think is relevant.
-
- * How to reproduce the bug.
-
- * If the bug was a crash, the exact text that was printed out when the
- crash occurred.
-
- * Further information such as stack traces may be useful, but is not
- necessary. If you do send a stack trace, and the error is an X error,
- it will be more useful if the stack trace is produced running the test
- program with the --sync command line option.
-
- See the file 'BUGS' for the list of known bugs.
-
-
- Patches
- =======
-
- Patches should also be submitted to bugzilla.gnome.org. If the patch
- fixes an existing bug, add the patch as an attachment to that bug
- report.
-
- Otherwise, enter a new bug report that describes the patch, and attach
- the patch to that bug report.
-
- Patches should be in unified diff form. (The -u option to GNU diff.)
-
- If you are interested in helping us to develop gedit, please see the
- file 'AUTHOR' for contact information and/or send a message to the gedit
- mailing list. See also the file 'HACKING' for more detailed information.
-
-
- The gedit team.
-
-