Gnome equiv. to Kate?

[Amanda Yilmaz]

There is indeed a "Session Saver" plugin for gedit, which on
Debian/Ubuntu systems is one of the extra plugins in the 'gedit-plugins'
package.

When you install 'gedit-plugins' and enable Session Saver, a new submenu
called "Saved sessions" appears in the File menu between the Open and
Save entries, from where you can save, open and otherwise manage
sessions.  The submenu looks something like this:

Saved sessions  >
    My first saved session
    My second saved session
    My third saved session
    (and so on...)
    ---------------------------
    Save current session
    Manage saved sessions...

Does that seem like it might fit the bill?

Amanda

----- Original message -----
From: "Madison Kelly" <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 13:24:08 -0400
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Gnome equiv. to Kate?

I took a second look at 'gedit', and it seems a lot further on than last 
time I looked. Do you know if there is a "session manager" plugin for 
it? If there is, I think it will do the job perfectly.

I work on a few different projects and often switch between them to snag 
code. Having an option to say "open files for project X" and have it 
remember what files I last had open in that project is one of my 
favourite features of kate.

Madi

Amanda Yilmaz wrote:
> I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned gedit; it's the official text
> editor for GNOME, and as far as I know it's the closest equivalent to
> Kate under GNOME.  For better or worse, and never having taken a liking
> to either vim or emacs (I originally came to Linux from the Mac and
> Windows GUI world), this is the text editor I use most often.
> 
> While it may not be obvious at first, gedit can be turned into quite a
> powerful and pleasant editor to use via its plugin architecture, and
> many plugins are available.  None of the plugins are enabled by default,
> however, so in order to use them you must explicitly enable the ones you
> want through the Preferences dialog (Edit > Preferences > Plugins).  One
> of the available plugins is File Browser Pane, which shows a list of
> currently open files, exactly the way you mentioned - and yes, it
> appears on the left, within gedit's Side Pane, which you can open via
> View > Side Pane or by pressing F9.  Syntax highlighting is also
> supported, and the list of supported languages is extensive.
> 
> On Debian-based systems anyway (including Ubuntu), several plugins,
> including the aforementioned File Browser Pane, Indent Lines (for
> indenting or unindenting a selected code range), Snippets, and Sort, are
> considered 'standard' and are included as part of the standard 'gedit'
> package.  More plugins, including Character Map, Code Comment (for
> commenting a selected code range in or out), Smart Spaces, and Embedded
> Terminal, can be made available by installing the 'gedit-plugins'
> package as well.  Your distro may have its packages set up differently,
> of course.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> Amanda
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