title: gedit plugins: split screen link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/gedit-plugins-split-screen/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 489 created: 2008/07/16 16:31:12 created_gmt: 2008/07/16 16:31:12 comment_status: open post_name: gedit-plugins-split-screen status: publish post_type: post

gedit plugins: split screen

Most of my development work happens on my Linux desktops at work and home. While I’m pretty comfortable with vi and know my way around Eclipse, the majority of my scripts get written using gedit. Now out of the box, gedit is a pretty good editor. Although its always had extensibility via a plugin facility, for the most part I’ve been happy with just turning on line numbering as my only optional feature.

But recently I’ve been doing a lot of editing that requires comparing files. Because gedit doesn’t ship with a split-screen capability, I needed something else. The meld utility works pretty good for this, but until the latest update over at EPEL, I couldn’t get it to work on CentOS 5.2, which drove me back to using gvim — a somewhat painful experience.

Googling around a bit today I stumbled on the Gedit Plugins page that lists all native and 3rd party plugins for the editor. Lo and behold! There they (it) were (was), Splitview (link is now dead) and SplitView2! Since there’s no doc up anywhere I can find at the moment, here’s what SplitView2 looks like on my machine:

Operation is pretty simple. Load up the first file, click on “View” … “Toggle Split View”, then hit “View other file”, and there you are. Installing is as simple as extracting the plugin package into ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins.

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