Top "Gedit" questions

gedit is a general purpose and powerful text editor for the GNOME desktop environment, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.

Does "\d" in regex mean a digit?

I found that in 123, \d matches 1 and 3 but not 2. I was wondering if \d matches a digit satisfying what kind …

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Creating executable files in Linux

One thing I plan to be doing is writing (painfully simple) Perl scripts, and I'd like to be able to …

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How to get gedit to auto-indent code

I'm trying to get gedit to auto-indent my code. The auto-indent check-box in preferences doesn't work. Is there a way …

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WSL - GEDIT Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 as Windows Subsystem for Linux on my Windows 10 machine. I've installed gedit without any errors or warnings. …

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"Column Mode" in gedit?

I'm transitioning from UltraEdit on Windows to gedit on Linux. So far, the experience is great (there's a lot here …

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Option to display control characters in gedit

I'm a newbie to Linux. Is there a way to see the control characters in gedit. I went to options-&…

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Block commenting in Gedit?

Is there a way to comment out a chunk of highlighted code? I am programming in ruby, and I hate …

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linux gedit: I always get "GConf Error: failed to contact configuration server ..."

How come I always get "GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to …

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Can I gedit something in Mac's Terminal

When I was using a Linux laptop as my dev machine, I used to do "gedit xxxx" in a Terminal. …

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"xdg_runtime_dir not set in the environment" and pkexec doesn't work

I try to execute the following line on ubuntu-server 14.04: $ sudo gedit /usr/local/svn/passwd-team and I get this error: …

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