[gedit-list] after 1 month of use -- gedit feedback / issues

[Andre Pinheiro <pr4040 gmail com>]

Hi list,

Ok, I've been using gedit (v2.18.1) for almost 1 month now, and here are 
the issues I'm having --

(I apologize in advance for the "draft-like" text of this email -- time 
has been short..)


* Features I'm missing in gedit:

- Configurable chars to be part of word -- like in gnome-terminal's 
option: "Select-by-word characters"
(e.g., to add "_", and ":" for Ruby symbols, "$" for Ruby global vars, etc.)
So that we can, e.g., make gedit see "_" as part of a word -- so that 
double-clicking on a variable with underscores will select the whole 
variable, same for Ruby symbols, etc..

- Smart Home?
I.e., <Home> putting the cursor after indentation (instead of at col 1)

- Z-order Tab Switching with Ctrl-Tab (or other hotkey)
explanation - from a quick googling:
"Z-order buffer switching allows you to easily switch to previous buffer 
using Ctrl-Tab, with exact behavior you expect from Alt-Tab."
as seen in:
Firefox, jEdit, and a good deal of editors..

- Smarter Indentation for Ruby / Rails
e.g.: <Enter> in a line that starts with "class " should increase 
indentation for next line. same with "def ".


-- Is there some way to get any of these?
Some configuration? Plugin? Or "patches welcome"? ;)  (I intend to 
contribute in the future..)


* Some problems / questions:

(BTW, I've installed the additional lang and MIME types for Rails 
available here (page in spanish):
http://blog.nationcode.com/articles/2007/05/29/emular-textmate-en-linux
)

- Why sometimes gedit doesn't:
recognize when I open an .rhtml file and set up proper syntax 
highlighting for it?

- When does gedit save the last position of the caret in a file?
Bug: A lot of times gedit doesn't save the last position of the caret in 
a file.

- gedit displays one less newline at end of file?
-- one less newline at end of file than other editors?


That said, I love gedit!  :)  Thank you to everyone who has been 
contributing.

..Coming from jEdit, I really appreciate gedit's responsiveness and 
lightness.  I intend to use gedit as my main programming editor for a 
long time to come.

Thanks for reading this, and I hope someone can enlighten me on some of 
these issues.

And thanks, Nando, for your latest -- the Rails Hotkeys plugin! :) Great 
work.