= 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 (& [http://github.com/flmendes/django-snippets-for-gedit 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 [http://code.djangoproject.com/attachment/wiki/gedit/django1.xml?format=raw 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.

[[Image(gedit-django-scheme.png, top)]]