Tweak GEdit fo Ruby On Rails developement

General tips

This assumes gedit 2.20.x

Add support for .rhtml syntax highlighting.

cd /usr/local/share/mime/packages/
wget http://grigio.org/files/x-rhtml.xml
cd /usr/local/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/
wget http://grigio.org/files/rhtml.lang

Enable the following plugins in gedit preferences. These are included by default

• Bracket Completion
• Code Comment
• Draw Spaces
• File Browser Pane
• Indent Lines
• Smart Spaces
• Snippets

Add the following plugins from gedit at gnome.org.

• Class Browser
• Word completion
• Snap Open
• Quick Highlight Mode

Below an example plugin classbrowser is installed.

pkg_add ectags-5.6
wget http://www.stambouliote.de/download/gedit_classbrowser-0.2.1.tar.gz
tar zxvf gedit_classbrowser-0.2.1.tar.gz
cd gedit_classbrowser-0.2.1
mkdir ~/.gnome2/gedit
mkdir ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins
mv classbrowser ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins
mv classbrowser.gedit-plugin ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins

Restart gedit and enable classbrowser plugin in prefereces.

source

GMate on OpenBSD

py-webkitgtk - Todo-List plugin and Find in Project plugin python-sexy - Go to File plugin - Not available? pyinotify - Gedit Open Files and SnapOpen plugins - Not available? ack-grep - Faster Find in Project - Not available?

pkg_add gedit                                                                                 
pkg_add gedit-plugins

References

• GMate - Distribution of GMate add ons to make gedit more TextMate like.