Gnome equiv. to Kate?

[Amanda Yilmaz]

Madison Kelly wrote:
> Awesome!
> 
> One last question and I think it will be a perfect replacement.
> 
> Is there a way to use hot keys to cycle through the open documents? In 
> kate, I could switch the open document by pressing <alt>+[<right 
> arrow>|<left arrow>]. Is there a way to do something similar in gedit?
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> Madi

The keys are different, but yes, gedit can do the same thing:

Ctrl + Alt + PgUp:  Next tab left (or up, if using document list).
Ctrl + Alt + PgDn:  Next tab right (or down, if using document list).
Alt + n:  Jump to nth tab.

More shortcuts can be found in gedit's online manual (Help > Contents).

By the way, it turns out I was confused when I mentioned the File
Browser Pane plugin earlier (it's been a while since I set this up on my
laptop).  Here's the correct information:  *All* modern installations of
gedit allow you to view the list of and switch between open files using
the Side Pane, even with no plugins enabled; this functionality is built
in.  The File Browser Pane plugin is different; it implements an entire
file browser as a separate tab within the Side Pane, so it's more akin
to an Open/Save dialog box than a document list.  Sorry about that.

If you hate tabs and always intend to navigate between open files using
the document list, you might be interested in another plugin in the
'gedit-plugins' package:  "Show/Hide Tabbar", which will allow you to
hide the tab bar using the View menu and reclaim a bit of vertical
space.

Behdad Esfahbad (the President of the GNOME Foundation, who lives in
Toronto and is apparently on this list) emailed me earlier today; he
said he had tried to post about gedit earlier but apparently his post
didn't make it through to the list.  He says he finds the following
article useful when introducing gedit to new users:

Customizing gedit as a Web Developer's IDE
http://www.micahcarrick.com/09-29-2007/gedit-html-editor.html

So there you have it.  If you have more questions, I'm always glad to
help.  ^_^

Amanda
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