gedit 3.10.4 Plugins in Ubuntu 14.04

I like the gedit text editor in Ubuntu 14.04. It is simple and trivial to add new features through plugins. Below I will list the plugins I like and where to find them. I will also give some general installation instructions. Commands from the terminal look like this sentence.

• System Information
  • Ubuntu 14.04 unity desktop
  • gedit 3.10.4
    • gedit is a small and lightweight text editor for the GNOME Desktop
    • https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit
• Plugins I have installed
  • From https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit/ThirdPartyPlugins-v3.8
    • Advanced Find & Replace
      • Advanced find & replace functions. Find & replace in documents.
      • Installation from install script
        • bash install.sh
    • Control Your Tabs
      • Switch between document tabs using Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab (most recently used order) and Ctrl+PageUp / Ctrl+PageDown (tabbar order).
      • Installation
        • cp -av controlyourtabs.py controlyourtabs.plugin ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins
    • Toggle Text Wrapping
      • Quickly toggle text wrapping from the View menu or Toolbar.
      • Installation
        • cp -avR toggletextwrapping toggletextwrapping.plugin ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins
  • From https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit/ThirdPartyPlugins-v3.0
    • Favorites
      • Organize your favorite documents for quick access.
      • Installation
        • cp -avR favorites favorites.plugin ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins
    • gedit-markdown
      • Syntax highlighting, snippets, external tool, color scheme and embedded HTML preview (can also be used as a Web browser) for Markdown
      • I did not install this, but wanted it here to find it later
    • Pylint 2
      • Analyze Python source code with Pylint
      • Installation
        • I added Gedit BC Developer Plugins which contains Pylint
          • https://launchpad.net/~gedit-bc-dev-plugins
        • sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gedit-bc-dev-plugins/releases
        • sudo apt-get update
        • sudo apt-get install gedit-developer-plugins
• Example Installation For Favorites Plugin
  • Most plugins are installed like the “favorites” plugin. All plugins provided good documentation for installation. A few plugins provide a bash installation script making installation even easier.
  • Download and extract the archive.
    • https://github.com/Quixotix/gedit-favorites/archive/master.zip
    • Firefox browser gives the option of downloading or extracting the archive. Choose extract the archive and choose a folder to save it to.
  • From the terminal, change directory to the extracted archive location with the “cd” command
  • Copy the file favorites.plugin and the folder favorites to ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins/.
    • cp -avR favorites favorites.plugin ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins
  • Restart Gedit.
  • Activate the plugin in gedit.
    • From the menu choose ‘Edit > Preferences’, select the ‘Plugins’ tab, and check the box next to ‘Favorites’

That is it. gedit comes for free from the Gnome Foundation. I appreciate everything they do and for promoting open source software. More information about gnome is here https://www.gnome.org/foundation/.