Category Archives: gedit

Thoughts on the Linux Mint X-Apps forks

Posted on June 18, 2016 by swilmet

You may be aware that Linux Mint has forked several GNOME applications, either directly from GNOME (Totem -> Xplayer, Evince -> Xreader, Eye of GNOME -> Xviewer), or indirectly via MATE (gedit -> pluma -> XEd). GNOME is like the … Continue reading →

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gspell news

Posted on November 20, 2015 by swilmet

gspell is now fully hosted on gnome.org! There is now a mailing list. In addition to LaTeXila, gspell is now also used by gedit (5,800 lines removed, yay!). The 0.1.x version has branched and is meant to be installed alongside … Continue reading →

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Announcing gCSVedit, a simple text editor to edit CSV files

Posted on November 3, 2015 by swilmet

As part of my job at the Université Catholique de Louvain, one of my projects is to develop gCSVedit, a small and simple text editor to edit CSV/TSV files. gCSVedit is now a free/libre software (GPLv3+ license) and is hosted … Continue reading →

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Introducing gspell, a new spell checking library

Posted on September 16, 2015 by swilmet

As part of the LaTeXila project and its fundraiser, I’m working on a new spell checking library called gspell. Some background At first I wanted to contribute to GtkSpell so that GtkSpell and GtkSourceView work well together, without a dependency … Continue reading →

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File loading and saving in GtkSourceView, finally

Posted on July 9, 2014 by swilmet

Last year GtkSourceView saw a new search and replace API. This year it’s the file loading and saving that has just landed! It is in the continuity of making the gedit source code more reusable for other text editors. In … Continue reading →

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Making the gedit source code more reusable

Posted on May 20, 2014 by swilmet

On IRC I see some developers working on other text editors based on GtkTextView/GtkSourceView. It is a good thing in my opinion to have specialized text editors. They are easier to use and configure. A specialized application has a potentially … Continue reading →

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The GSoC on GtkSourceView/gedit comes to an end

Posted on September 21, 2013 by swilmet

A small update on my GSoC. The first part took a little longer than expected. But I’m happy with the results, the search and replace API is simple and flexible, there were not a lot of bugs to fix, and … Continue reading →

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Regex search in gedit and GtkSourceView, finally

Posted on August 19, 2013 by swilmet

Although regular expression searches were possible with plugins, it is now available by default in gedit. The search and replace works too, and you can use backreferences (\0, \1, …) in the replacement text. All this work has been merged … Continue reading →

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Search and replace in gedit and GtkSourceView

Posted on July 15, 2013 by swilmet

My GSoC on GtkSourceView/gedit/… is coming along nicely. Here is a screenshot of the new search in gedit: The visible new thing is the “298 of 703” in the search entry, that shows the position of the current search match, … Continue reading →

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