Linux for Designers

I updated all my gEdit plugins to be completely localized in german or english. I added version numbers for all too, so you can easy check in the preferences which version you are using.

http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gedit-language-reference-plugin
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gedit-browser-preview-plugin
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gedit-template-plugin

Happy coding!

I updated my gEdit "Browser Preview" plugin, some bug fixes and feature enhancements:
* the plugin now checks first if IEs4Linux is installed, if not it tries to start the Internet Explorer 6 from the default Wine directory
* for testing webpages on the Webkit browser engine the plugin checks if Midori is installed if not it tries to run Konquerer
* if you opened a HTML document from a FTP server the "ftp://" will replaced by "http://" in the browser

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For web development I use gEdit which looks in the first as a simple editor but by activating and installing plugins it will be a very cool code machine.
The number of plugins is growing well (my self wrote 3 plugins too) and from time to time i take a look at the plugins list. These days i found two new plugins that are really helpful:
XML Helper could be better named in "Tag Complement". By a key stroke (i like the old typical HomeSite/ PSPad key Ctrl+, and Ctrl+.) it write all opening or closing tags for you.
Split View will split your code window vertical or hoizontal.

In my last posts i wrote about created gEdit plugins (here and here) and some nice command line utilities for web developers. Yesterday i found the blog of Micah Carrick which is the author of the Gedit Symbol Browser Plugin and of some very nice articles about web development with gEdit (here and here). Check it out!

On my way bringing SweeTS - delicious TypoScript development to Linux, i wrote an plugin for opening an external language reference for the language you are editing in gEdit. The additional "gedit-plugins" package must be installed first. The plugin is localized in german and english.

How it works:
* The external language reference can be an PDF, a DocBook XML, a CHM Windows helpfile, a PostScript file or a HTML page
* Copy the files of the gedit_reference_plugin.zip into "~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins"
* Create a folder "help" in "~/.gnome2/gedit/"
* Copy your language references to "~/.gnome2/gedit/help"
* Set the filename of your reference document as the programming language name (you can get the name easily from "View > Highlight Mode"). An example: if you have a CHM documentation "python25.chm" then rename it into "Python.chm"
* Start gEdit and enable the plugin "Language Reference" in the preferences
* After a restart the plugin appears in the help menu
* Assign the shortcut "Alt+F1" to it
* Yelp (Docbook XML), GnoChm (Windows comiled Help CHM), Firefox (HTML) or Evince (PDF, PS) are required
* Error dialogs based on Zenity

So now you have an easy access to your programming guides and preferences
If you are using Ubuntu you can grap a up-to-date version of GnoCHM at GetDeb.net.

Download:
http://files.myopera.com/area42/files/gedit_reference_plugin.zip

Other gEdit plugins i wrote:
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gedit-template-plugin
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gedit-browser-preview-plugin
A lot of other gEdit plugins can be found here.