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gedit is a GUI editor available with Gnome on Linux.
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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.  
 
By default, gedit uses Unix line endings, so this should not need changing.  

Revision as of 22:21, 7 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.