gEdit a la TextMate

11Mar08

Hands up those of you who have Mac-using friends who rave about wonder-boy code editor TextMate.

Ever wondered what the type was about? Yeah? So did I.

Anyways, had the luck of chancing upon a few blogs that, with a few tweaks, allows you to jostle gEdit into behaving somewhat like TextMate (especially in the context of Ruby on Rails). Not all the features though, but close enough.

Check out

• http://robzon.aenima.pl/2007/10/ubuntu-710-rails-gedit-and.html
• http://grigio.org/textmate_gedit_few_steps

And other useful links

• x-rhtml.xml (RHTML mime type definition)
• rhtml.lang (RHTML language definition for gtksourceview-2.0)
• rhtml-snippets

The 3 files above allowed me to get up and running with RHTML syntax highlighting and snippets

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Tags: gedit, rhtml, ruby on rails