Comments on: gedit OS X for realz

By: Danny

Danny — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:07:21 +0000

We need more posts like this!

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:26:25 +0000

Wow…

By: Jesse van den Kieboom

Jesse van den Kieboom — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:55:54 +0000

The fix is not entirely know, apart we should listen for Apple Events (http://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleEvents/intro_aepg/intro_aepg.html) and handle the right ones appropriately. Other than that it’s a matter of time.

Setting up the built environment for building gedit could be a bit of a hassle, you’ll have to use jhbuilt to built the gtk+, glib modules, and there are some custom patches in my github (http://github.com/jessevdk).

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:17:30 +0000

Well… I think passing a filename argument to an editor app would be somewhat important and lack thereof a bit on the annoying side. But I know what you mean – I am working around the clock and still cannot get everything done

Is the fix known, but just no time to implement? If not known, what would one need to track it down? Would a full blown Mac development environment be needed or just a few tools?

I am a very experienced programmer and good troubleshooter, but totally new to the Mac environment.

If I could help by looking for the fix, just let me know what to download and I would be happy to squeeze in a few hours of troubleshooting.

Just want to be able to double-click on .rb file!

-Dan

By: Jesse van den Kieboom

Jesse van den Kieboom — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:43:50 +0000

It doesn’t have a very high priority because there are many things to do and we’re a small team. To be notified when anything happens you can subscribe to that bug report so that you receive an e-mail when anything happens.

There are some plugins out there for ruby on rails:

1. http://robzon.aenima.pl/2007/10/ubuntu-710-rails-gedit-and.html
2. http://github.com/mig/gedit-rails

Don’t know how good the stuff is, haven’t tried it myself. If you have any immediate questions by the way, feel free to drop by on IRC (#gedit on gimpnet)

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:24:23 +0000

Thanks for the bugtrak info. I do not see any info about when/if it might be fixed. Is there anything you can tell us that might let us know?

Its obviously not critical, but I sure wish it worked

About the language files, I mean of course programming language:

/usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/rhtml.lang

and others that describe mime types and file types that fill out the limited support for ruby and rails.

This is from my ubuntu system, The location is a subdir similar to your install (I hope).

I gathered these and some useful pluginsfor development project. I bounce back and forth between mac and linux so your package is really helpful.

I am very tied up for a few days but will eventually try out these files and plugins to see if they work. I will plop a msg when I do. I will also kind of document this but it probably won’t win a pulitzer.

-Dan

By: Jesse van den Kieboom

Jesse van den Kieboom — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:47:10 +0000

The bug to track is: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585506

What do you mean by adding a language specific file for ruby?

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:57:08 +0000

Any change of status on the “Open with…” bug?

Is there a bug report somewhere on this that I can track?

Great job on the DMG package!!

I am going to try to add some language specific file for ruby.

Thanks

Dan

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:57:18 +0000

Hey Alex,

well… i gave you instructions a shot but i still can’t get it to work. I also do not get any compiling errors when I try to activate the latex plugin. What am I doing wrong?

By: John Pye

John Pye — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:35:20 +0000

Great work! Downloading it now. It could do with some more publicity, e.g. on GTK-OSX wiki, and on GTK+ wiki…