Beautifying Gedit

Posted June 13, 2010 under News

So I do a lot of work in Gedit when I’m not using Vim. Lately I’ve been using it a considerable amount over Vim and wanted a better color scheme that was vibrant. I came across this article and was pleased to have found something I thought I would like. I have to say, I absolutely love it. All the colors are bright enough and different enough that when you want to look for one specific thing, nothing else stands about better. :D Included in the link are a lot of other things for making Gedit more TextMate like. From the sounds of it, TextMate seems to be an incredible editor, so I might have to check out some of those plugins soon.

You can download the darkmate theme for Gedit here: http://grigio.org/files/darkmate.xml

If you’ve got any other theme or plugin suggestions for Vim or Gedit let me know. I need to build a perfect environment to develop in and I’m sure there are some life savers I haven’t come across yet.

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Discussion

  • http://mac9416.com mac9416

    My favorite theme is Oblivion. It's very easy on the eyes.

    I like to disable the toolbar and use key combinations instead. It allows me to see more code at a time.

    The only extra plugin I enable is “Code Comment,” which comes with the gedit-plugins package. I used to always enable the “Indent Lines” plugin, but as of Ubuntu 10.04, indenting multiple lines is as easy as selecting them and hitting Tab.

  • http://excid3.com Chris Oliver

    I used to use Oblivion, but the colors blend together too easily for me, I like how Darkmate is extremely vibrant.

    Disabling the toolbar is a good idea. I need to learn snippet shortcuts and use those as well.

    Code Comment is great and yeah indenting is pretty easy, those two make editing very similar to Visual Studio which I use for school.