Using gedit with Django

gedit is a free, lightweight editing tool for the GNOME desktop found in many distributions of Linux, BSD and other Unix systems.

Feature List

• Full support for internationalized text (UTF-8)
• Configurable syntax highlighting for various languages (C, C++, Java, HTML, XML, Python, Perl and many others)
• Undo/Redo
• Editing files from remote locations
• File reverting
• Print and print preview support
• Clipboard support (cut/copy/paste)
• Search and replace
• Go to specific line
• Auto indentation
• Text wrapping
• Line numbers
• Right margin
• Current line highlighting
• Bracket matching
• Backup files
• Configurable fonts and colors
• A complete online user manual

Some screenshots of gedit:

​http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/screenshots.html

There are useful plugins like a python console or snippets and of course you can write your own plugins in python.

​http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins/BetterPythonConsole

Plugins

A list of plugins that you may find helpful in gedit:

• Auto Tab
• Bookmarks
• Draw Spaces
• Embedded Terminal
• File Browser Pane
• FTP Browser
• Line Tools
• Modelines
• Python Console
• Save without trailing space
• Session Saver
• Smart Spaces
• Snippets (& ​django snippets for gedit)
• Symbol Browser
• Tag list

django theme for gedit

I created a theme based on the color scheme used on the Django website.

To install the scheme, download ​django1.xml and copy the django1.xml to /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/styles/

sudo cp django1.xml /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/styles/

and activate it in gedit > Edit > Preferences > Fonts & Colors.