To open a file to edit in gedit I run gedit sample.py &. But with Sublime Text it is simply subl sample.py. This opens the file to edit and it doesn't run in the background (in my shell). How would I do that with gedit? I tried exec /usr/bin/gedit "$@" (copied from /usr/bin/subl) but it works like gedit &. Or alias ged="gedit $file &" should do. What can I substitute $file in the alias?

I am using gedit on a work Linux install where I don't have root. I can't see how to save my preferences or load them. Is there a way to make a config file that gedit can load?

Following [this answer](https://askubuntu.com/a/1491175) , I found that gedit takes veeery long to start because it tries to access all of the network shares that are only available when connected to my employer's network via VPN or being on site. I am not sure, what part of the strace output would be useful to diagnose the problem, but here are some related lines quite before the issue occurs:

[...]
read(15, "# This file is written by xdg-us"..., 633) = 633
close(15)                               = 0
statx(AT_FDCWD, "/home/stanley/Cloudstore", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, STATX_ALL, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID|STATX_SUBVOL, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, stx_size=656, ...}) = 0
statx(AT_FDCWD, "/home/stanley/Dropbox", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, STATX_ALL, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID|STATX_SUBVOL, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, stx_size=682, ...}) = 0
statx(AT_FDCWD, "/home/stanley/Dropbox", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, STATX_ALL, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID|STATX_SUBVOL, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, stx_size=682, ...}) = 0
statx(AT_FDCWD, "/home/stanley/Dropbox", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, STATX_ALL, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID|STATX_SUBVOL, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, stx_size=682, ...}) = 0
statx(AT_FDCWD, "/home/stanley/Documents", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, STATX_ALL, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID|STATX_SUBVOL, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, stx_size=778, ...}) = 0
statx(AT_FDCWD, "/home/stanley/Documents", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, STATX_ALL, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID|STATX_SUBVOL, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, stx_size=778, ...}) = 0
statx(AT_FDCWD, "/home/stanley/Documents", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, STATX_ALL, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID|STATX_SUBVOL, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, stx_size=778, ...}) = 0
statx(AT_FDCWD, "/home/stanley/Music", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, STATX_ALL, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID|STATX_SUBVOL, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, stx_size=0, ...}) = 0
statx(AT_FDCWD, "/home/stanley/Music", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, STATX_ALL, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID|STATX_SUBVOL, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, stx_size=0, ...}) = 0
statx(AT_FDCWD, "/home/stanley/Music", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, STATX_ALL, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID|STATX_SUBVOL, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, stx_size=0, ...}) = 0
statx(AT_FDCWD, "/home/stanley/Pictures", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, STATX_ALL, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID|STATX_SUBVOL, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, stx_size=32, ...}) = 0
statx(AT_FDCWD, "/home/stanley/Pictures", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, STATX_ALL, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID|STATX_SUBVOL, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, stx_size=32, ...}) = 0
statx(AT_FDCWD, "/home/stanley/Pictures", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, STATX_ALL, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID|STATX_SUBVOL, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, stx_size=32, ...}) = 0
statx(AT_FDCWD, "/home/stanley/Videos", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, STATX_ALL, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID|STATX_SUBVOL, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, stx_size=84, ...}) = 0
statx(AT_FDCWD, "/home/stanley/Videos", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, STATX_ALL, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID|STATX_SUBVOL, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, stx_size=84, ...}) = 0
statx(AT_FDCWD, "/home/stanley/Videos", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, STATX_ALL, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID|STATX_SUBVOL, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, stx_size=84, ...}) = 0
statx(AT_FDCWD, "/home/stanley/Downloads", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, STATX_ALL, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID|STATX_SUBVOL, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, stx_size=352, ...}) = 0
statx(AT_FDCWD, "/home/stanley/Downloads", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, STATX_ALL, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID|STATX_SUBVOL, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, stx_size=352, ...}) = 0
statx(AT_FDCWD, "/home/stanley/Downloads", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, STATX_ALL, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID|STATX_SUBVOL, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, stx_size=352, ...}) = 0
statx(AT_FDCWD, "/mnt/iflglw/install", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, STATX_ALL, 0x7ffd6a1c2560) = -1 ENODEV (No such device)
[...]

The shares are configured via systemd automount. Why does gedit even try to access any of these folders, even when I just want to open a blank editor or an existing local file somewhere else? But more importantly: How can I prevent gedit from trying to access all the unreachable network mounts?

Simple question. In a very large file I open with **gedit**, I need to do a search of the regex [\n][A-Z], and for every find, I wish to insert a symbol, say $, at the beginning of the pattern [\n][A-Z]. (in other words, to replace just [\n] (newline) by $, and keep whatever character is [A-Z]) Is there a way? maybe a plugin?

Sciancisco and I developed a syntax highlighter for the **Groff** markup language to be used with Gedit, Pluma, Xed etc. I installed it in /usr/share/gtksourceview-4/language-specs/groff.lang and it always worked fine, but now I'm using Debian Trixie and it doesn't work anymore. Any clue?

* name: the "G" of "Groff" was capitalized.
    * 
        * mimetypes and globs: completely changed based upon "All known MIME
          types" and their filename patterns, available at
          https://www.digipres.org/formats/mime-types/ 
    * 
        * comment-new and comment-old: the "." (dot) was included as part of the
          comment. Added "\.".
-->


    
        application/x-troff;application/x-troff-man;text/troff
        *.1;*.2;*.3;*.4;*.5;*.6;*.7;*.8;*.groff;*.man;*.roff
    

    
        
        
        
        
        
    

    
        
            

            
                \.\\#
                $
            

            
                \.\\"
                $
            

            
            
                \\[[]
                []]
            

            
                \\.[[]
                []]
            

            
                \\[(]..
            

            
                \\.[(]..
            

            
                \\..
            

            
                \\.
            

            
            
            
            
            
                ^\.EQ(\s|$)
                ^\.EN
            

            
                ^\.PS(\s|$)
                ^\.PE
            

            
                ^\.TS(\s|$)
                ^\.TE
            

            
                ^\.cstart(\s|$)
                ^\.cend
            

            
                ^\.R1(\s|$)
                ^\.R2
            

            
                ^\.[[]
                ^\.[]]
            

            
            
                ^\.[A-Z0-9_]+
            

            
                ^\.[a-z]+

I am trying to programmatically customise various settings in the gedit application, and currently I've got the following command to change the colour scheme.

gsettings set org.gnome.gedit.preferences.editor scheme 'cobalt'

The issue I have is, if you see below, there are some colour schemes which are two words. Now with that in mind, I've tried the following command, but with no success:

gsettings set org.gnome.gedit.preferences.editor scheme 'solarized dark'

Unfortunately, I do not get any errors or feedback to say the above command has not worked. Would anyone know what I have done wrong here?

Gedit matches brackets like { with } and tells us where the matching opening/closing bracket is. If it is more than 10000 characters, it says "Bracket match is out of range" instead. How would one go about extending that range? I've got the newest version of Ubuntu and Gedit came with it. Here https://github.com/jaseemabid/gedit I found gedit-master/gedit/gedit-window.c which says in ln.2236-2270

static void
bracket_matched_cb (GtkSourceBuffer           *buffer,
		    GtkTextIter               *iter,
		    GtkSourceBracketMatchType  result,
		    GeditWindow               *window)
{
	if (buffer != GTK_SOURCE_BUFFER (gedit_window_get_active_document (window)))
		return;

	switch (result)
	{
		case GTK_SOURCE_BRACKET_MATCH_NONE:
			gtk_statusbar_pop (GTK_STATUSBAR (window->priv->statusbar),
					   window->priv->bracket_match_message_cid);
			break;
		case GTK_SOURCE_BRACKET_MATCH_OUT_OF_RANGE:
			gedit_statusbar_flash_message (GEDIT_STATUSBAR (window->priv->statusbar),
						       window->priv->bracket_match_message_cid,
						       _("Bracket match is out of range"));
			break;
		case GTK_SOURCE_BRACKET_MATCH_NOT_FOUND:
			gedit_statusbar_flash_message (GEDIT_STATUSBAR (window->priv->statusbar),
						       window->priv->bracket_match_message_cid,
						       _("Bracket match not found"));
			break;
		case GTK_SOURCE_BRACKET_MATCH_FOUND:
			gedit_statusbar_flash_message (GEDIT_STATUSBAR (window->priv->statusbar),
						       window->priv->bracket_match_message_cid,
						       _("Bracket match found on line: %d"),
						       gtk_text_iter_get_line (iter) + 1);
			break;
		default:
			g_assert_not_reached ();
	}
}

So in case the result is GTK_SOURCE_BRACKET_MATCH_OUT_OF_RANGE we get this message. I couldn't figure out where the bracket_matched_cb method is called, this is as far as I got.

I have a text file that I can change using other applications (for example openoffice). But when I try to change and save it using gedit, I am getting error from gedit: Could not save the file /media/sf_Ubuntu/BuildNotes.txt. Unexpected error: Error renaming temporary file: Text file busy the permission of BuildNotes.txt is as follow: -rwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf 839 2012-10-26 12:08 BuildNotes.txt and user id is: m@m-Linux:/media/sf_Ubuntu$ id uid=1000(m) gid=1000(m) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),46(plugdev),105(lpadmin),119(admin),122(sambashare),1000(m),1001(vboxsf) What is the problem and how I can fix it?

For gedit, I'm creating a custom syntax highlighter for a markup-like language that I created to accomplish some natural language manipulation stuff, so I thought I'd get started with the simple keywords, seeing as I don't need to come up with regexes for them. I've defined the following in the XML:

text/x-c;text/x-csrc;image/x-xpixmap
    *.foo
  

  
    
    
  

  

    
      ref
      alt
      pos
      num
    

    
      #
      $
      @
      [
      ]
      :
      =
      :?
      &

The syntax does highlight, but only on some odd conditions. Specifically, any keyword in the operators context must be both preceded by and followed by a non-keyword character, lest it will fail to highlight. Should I be using a regex for these or did I just botch the XML? Also, why do the members keywords highlight without issue?

I want to edit /etc/inittab in order to get a login prompt on the serial console once the system boots. By default, inittab file complains to be ro. I tried both gksudo gedit /etc/inittab and sudo vi /etc/inittab and seemed to be properly configured. However, when I opened file after that with gedit, I saw no difference. Any ideas?

I try to use regex such as ^ to find the start of the line in the gedit editor in Ubuntu 22.04 but it doesn't work. Also for $ as the end of the line. Other regular expressions such as \n,\d,\s work well

How can gedit be forced to open a new window independently of existing gedit windows whenever a text file (.txt) is double-clicked on a Gnome desktop of Debian 8, Jessie? Suppose that a.txt is already open in a gedit window, and that b.txt is double-clicked on a Gnome desktop of Debian 8 Jessie. Then, unfortunately, by the factory default, b.txt will be opened in a tab in the same window as a.txt. However, I want b.txt to be opened in a new window of gedit so that there will be two windows - the existing window for a.txt and a new window for b.txt. If Gnome invoked gedit with the "-s" option as in gedit -s b.txt then b.txt would be opened in a new window, while a.txt stays in its existing window. However, by default, Gnome seems to invoke gedit without the "-s" option. The configuration file /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.gedit.desktop contains the execution directive Exec=gedit %U So, I changed it to Exec=gedit -s %U by the following commands, and restarted the computer. cd /usr/share/applications su # similar to sudo mv org.gnome.gedit.desktop org.gnome.gedit.desktop.bak perl -pe 's/Exec=gedit %U/Exec=gedit -s %U/' org.gnome.gedit.desktop.bak > org.gnome.gedit.desktop diff org.gnome.gedit.desktop org.gnome.gedit.desktop.bak However, this method has failed. The b.txt still opens in a tab in the same window as a.txt. I am stuck. I need your help. The default mode of gedit is "single window, multiple tabs". I want the "multiple windows" mode. By the way, the following useless method turns gedit into the "single window, no tab" mode, which is not what I want. gsettings set org.gnome.gedit.preferences.ui show-tabs-mode 'never' With this "gsettings" method, gedit automatically closes a.txt and reuses the existing window of a.txt to open b.txt in it whenever b.txt is double-clicked on a desktop. Thus, it is the "single window, no tab" mode (as opposed to "multiple windows"). (By the way, the default value for "show-tabs-mode" is 'auto'.)

Is there a plugin of some sorts that gets rid of trailing spaces and tabs in every line when saving a file edited with gedit?

Kali 2020 doesn't come with gedit pre-installed. After installing with sudo apt-get install gedit and trying to run, I get an error message:

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[/root]
└─$ gedit test.txt
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

(gedit:3673): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:16:31.911: cannot open display:

How can I fix this? **EDIT:** I'm actually running a Kali virtual machine with VMWARE.

On Single Desktop Environment.... I created some custom shortcuts, but currently I want to revert all the changes to default settings (which having no custom changes). Example: created like CTRL + N = new terminal and later changed it to CTRL + T so here, CTRL + N is overridden with some conflicts. Where gedit CTRL + N for opening a new document is affected (not working at all). I found some related questions on this, but none resolved my purpose. Actually, if there are no ways to reset entire keyboard shortcut keys in CentOS, please suggest a way to rectify CTRL + N to work fine for gedit again?

after saved sources.list with gedit, i get this error, but can update/upgrade:

-none
** (gedit:2431): WARNING **: 17:40:30.625: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-spell-language not supported

I am using a patched nerd font, [SauceCodePro](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-fonts/SourceCodePro) . I have used the [cheat sheet](https://www.nerdfonts.com/cheat-sheet) to copy some icons and paste them into an editor. For example, I copied the icon for nf-mdi-yelp, and when pasted into gedit, it appears as a single character in the first column (as expected). However, when doing the same for nf-mdi-yin_yang, when I paste it it appears in the last column (ie: as if the text is written right-to-left) Notice in the statusbar it says my cursor position is line 2, column 1, but column 1 is all the way to the right. Interestingly, if I add the yin-yang icon on the same line as the yelp icon, it is "pulled" left. Also interestingly, if I move my cursor to before the yin-yang icon, the gedit cursor changes, displaying a double line, one on either side of the icon, with arrows pointing inward. My google-fu is too poor to find anything online to tell me what this cursor in gedit is about. **Questions:** - Why is the yin-yang pulled to the right? - Is it possible to force it left? - What is the weird double cursor which gedit displays in this case?

I am a newbie at Linux and so far so good my workflow of studying music with Csound is adding a new tool under the External Tools Gedit plugin doing this, #!/bin/sh csound '/home/ye53b/Desktop/TC4R37A7B/music/csound' which is a text file containing the Csound syntax that later is interpreted as noise... Is there any way to identify the path of the file I am in, instead of using a main text file every time (/home/ye53b/Desktop/TC4R37A7B/music/csound)?

I'm installing and configuring the ssh in CentOs 8 with a virtual box machine. I installed both libraries with following command: sudo yum install openssh-server openssh-clients Then I started the service with: sudo systemctl enable sshd sudo systemctl start sshd sudo systemctl status sshd And it's running normally. When I try to edit the sshd_config file with the command: sudo gedit /etc/ssh/sshd_config I get the following error: No protocol specified Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused (gedit:5680): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:59:00.071: cannot open display: :0 Could someone help me, please?

I know how to jump from tab to tab in the text editor frame, but jumping from the text editor (center-right top frame) to the command line (center-right bottom frame) using only the keyboard eludes me. I know that jumping straight out of the command line frame probably won't be possible (or as easy as jumping out of one of the other two frames), but knowing how to do the other jumps would save me (and stackexchange posterity) a fair amount of time.