Re: [gedit-list] Clip Libraries

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

On dom, 2007-06-03 at 23:03 +1000, Peter Anderson wrote:
> Hi! I am new to this list and trying to make the switch from Windows to 
> Linux (Ubuntu).
> 
> On Windows I have been using text editors like EditPlus2 
> (http://www.editplus.com/index.html) and TextPad for many years. The 
> compelling reason to use these editors is their clip library feature. 
> Clip libraries allow you to define code snippets which are typically 
> viewed in a side panel. When clicked they insert to cliped text into the 
> editor at the current insertion point. The following two clips are from 
> my EditPlus HTML clip library:
> 

Hi Peter,

	actually gedit already has similar functionality: enable the "tag list"
plugin in the preference. An IMHO even nicer plugin is the "snippets"
plugin which allows to insert common code snippets in a very comfortable
way.

ciao
	Paolo

> #T=Paragraph
> <p>^!</p>
> 
> #T=Unordered List
> <ul>
> <li>^!</li>
> <li></li>
> </ul>
> 
> #T= is used for the clip title
> ^! leaves the cursor insertion point at this place after the clip has 
> been inserted
> 
> The first clip is a simple HTML paragraph tag pair. The second clip is a 
> multi-line HTML unordered list with two list items. Basically any text 
> can be added to a clip library document.
> 
> My question/request is - is this functionality available in gEdit? If 
> not (as I suspect) can the developers look at adding this type of 
> functionality to gEdit? Once you get used to this capability it is very 
> hard to use a text editor that does not have it.
> 
> Regards,
> Peter