On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 14:10 +0000, seanh wrote:
> Seb, I don't understand your first comment. As far as I can tell, Gedit
> does not have autocompletion, either for programming languages (lets
> call that 'code completion') or for words generally ('word completion'),
> I don't see any option or plugin to enable this, even with the gedit-
> plugins package installed.
>
> There _are_ third party plugins for both features, but you currently
> have to download and install them manually. From this page
> http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins there is the "Document Words
> Completion" plugin and two "Word completion" plugins (all three do the
> same thing, from the descriptions), then there is the "Automatic code
> completion" and "Python code-completion" plugins which sound more like
> code completion for programming languages.
The leading plugin for text and code complete is GtkSourceCompletion.
It is being integrated into GTKSourceView2, the document editor used by
Gedit. The effort should be completed for the September 2.24 release of
GNOME, which will be in Ubuntu 8.10.
> I haven't tried any of these, some of them are not simple to install
> manually as they have dependencies. Assuming they work well, it would be
> great to see them packaged so they would be easy to install.
>
> In general, I think gedit needs an automatic way to find and install
> plugins, since quite a lot of features are implemented by plugins.
That would be nice.
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auto completeion for Gedit
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