{"id":1146,"date":"2012-02-02T11:32:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T19:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2014-02-07T00:17:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T08:17:27","slug":"gedit-3-2-gdp-completions-on-ubuntu-11-10-oneiric-ocelot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/1146","title":{"rendered":"Gedit 3.2 GDP Completions on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Curiosity gets the best of me sometimes. Okay, most of the time. Did you know GNOME’s text editor, gedit<\/code>, has a plethora of extensions which can basically transform it into an IDE? Something I’ve always wanted is intellisense<\/a>-style autocompletion. The closest thing I’ve found for gedit<\/code> is GDP Completions Plugin<\/em> in the gedit-developer-plugins<\/em> package in Ubuntu.<\/p>\n

\r\nsudo aptitude install gedit-developer-plugins\r\n<\/pre>\n
However, there’s a bug<\/a> in that package and the popup menu doesn’t actually work. Ctrl + Space<\/code> is supposed to bring it up<\/a>.  So you want to add the Gedit Developer Plugins PPA<\/a> and upgrade to the more recent version.<\/p>\n
\r\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:user\/ppa-name\r\nsudo apt-get update\r\nsudo apt-get upgrade gedit-developer-plugins\r\n<\/pre>\n
If you try to run gedit now, you’ll notice it won’t…  run, that is.  Great<\/em>.  I know, right?  The problem is that the bzr plugin (also included in the gedit-developer-plugins<\/code> package) is trying to use the gtk2<\/em> version of bzr-gtk, but that doesn’t work in the gtk3<\/em> gedit.  Anyway, you can pull a copy of the gtk3 bazaar plugin into your local bzr plugins directory. (I found this info here<\/a>).  Create ~\/.bazaar\/plugins\/<\/code> if it doesn’t exist.<\/p>\n
\r\nmkdir ~\/.bazaar\/plugins\r\ncd ~\/.bazaar\/plugins\r\nbzr branch lp:bzr-gtk\/gtk3 gtk\r\n<\/pre>\n
The gedit-developer-plugins<\/code> package and gedit<\/code> should work after that!  An alternative to the above would be to add a PPA that includes bzr-gtk 3<\/code>.  Not sure if one exists at the moment, but that would be a cleaner solution.  And you thought it would be simple.  I know I did.  \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n
It’s not as polished or featured as other implementations<\/a>, but it’s a good start.  Here’s a screenshot after I type os.<\/code> then hit Ctrl + Space<\/code>:<\/p>\n
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Further reading<\/h3>\n