If you’re a web designer that likes to work with a powerful text editor rather than a WYSIWYG application, then this blog post Micah Carrick will set you on the right path! He details how to customize settings and install plugins for the Gedit text editor. As the default text editor for GNOME, you’ll find it present in many distributions.

Mr. Carrick’s tips supercharge Gedit and reveal features a like GTK color wheel for inserting hex values for colors, code validation, text expansion, as well FTP and SSH integration. This writeup really doesn’t do justice to the attention detail and great ideas the blog post gives for creating a fantastic environment for web development. Check it out!

Customizing gedit as a Web Developer’s IDE

Filed under: GNOME, Text Editing, Tutorials