Gedit can be a really awesome editor if you give it a few plugins and an open mind. Here are a few of my favorites.
@mcrittenden: OH: When interviewing a DB admin applicant, we asked “what do you think of MySQL?” He replied “how would I know anything about your SQL?”
@mcrittenden: Zen-coding Gedit plugin now supports CSS snippets and automatic tab detection: http://github.com/mikecrittenden/zen-coding-gedit
@mcrittenden: I just found out that ‘sudo’ should be pronounced ‘soo doo’ (as in ‘SuperUser Do’), not ‘soo doe’ …this changes EVERYTHING
QUOTE: You know how sometimes if you mistype a filename in Bash, it corrects your spelling and runs the command anyway? Such as when changing directory, or opening a file.
I have invented Suicide Linux. Any time - any time - you type any remotely incorrect command, the interpreter creatively resolves it into “rm -rf /” and wipes your hard drive.
It’s a game. Like walking a tightrope. You have to see how long you can continue to use the operating system before losing all your data.
— via Suicide Linux
Charlie’s latest ultrasound. We put our wedding music to it since we’re dorks like that.
@mcrittenden: If anyone’s using Gedit and writes a good bit of HTML, try out this plugin I’m working on: http://bit.ly/byeLB1
Zen Coding is a pretty sweet set of tools for HTML and CSS that allows you to code things in a short of code shorthand, hit a magic button, and it expand to regular old code.
If you’re interested, here’s a demo video of it.
Sadly, there’s no official Gedit plugin for it, but Stuart Langridge hacked up a quick plugin a few months ago. However, it left a bit to be desired, and he didn’t seem to interested in maintaining it.
Therefore, I’m continuing development on it myself. I’ve fixed a few bugs and refactored a couple parts, and I’m hoping to turn this into a really nice plugin.
The code is all at GitHub, so feel free to download, drop it into your Gedit plugins folder (see the README file for more info), and try it out.
@mcrittenden: Follow @bluetripcss for updates to BlueTrip’s GitHub repo.