Re: [gedit-list] Fonts

[Jesse van den Kieboom <jessevdk gnome org>]

Alexias wrote:
> I use Monoscript as well as basic fonts but I want to use just one 
> text editor. Would you please offer a function choosing between 
> several font types by recognizing the file type? In that case I could 
> automatically open x-documents with code and y-documents with literary 
> text.
I'm not sure this is a core functionality we would like  to support. The 
problem is that gedit can only open plain text files, and those contain 
no formatting, and are usually best viewed in a monospace font. I'm not 
sure you can make a good distinction between files based on their mime 
type for showing them in a monospace font or not. Could you maybe give 
an example of your use case?

That said, it should be quite easy to implement this as a plugin. If you 
know a bit of gtk+ and python, you can simpy hook into the 
'notify::language' of documents, and set the font of the textview 
according to the language in the document.


Jesse
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