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Does anyone know how to highlight some text or change its color in Gedit 3.4.1?
I have a list of features or modules to include in my project and I just want to mark each as solved when am done with it. Just a simple highlight or color change will do.
Thanxs.
Find the solution myself:
It was a style (theme) problem. Checked again using the default theme and this behave as expected. So I inspected carefully the other themes and found that not all those themes had this problem.
The solution was to edit the theme's code (twilight.xml) to insert the following lines:
<style name="selection" background="orange" />
<style name="selection-unfocused" foreground="white" background="gray" />
By the way, the location of the themes in gEdit 3 differ from gEdit 2. Here it is:
~/.local/share/gtksourceview-3.0/styles/
You can create the directory yourself if it doesn't exist. Further info on style paths here: http://live.gnome.org/GtkSourceView/StyleSchemes
You don't need any plugin to highlight all instances of a selection in gedit. Select the text about you are interested in, then just press Ctrl+F (to search all instances of that selected text):
Now, let me give you some explanations about those plugins. First one, smart-highlighting is working like a charm for me. How I made:
gedit --version command) - it's 3.6.2.Second plugin, it's for gedit2.x and finish. It's not enough a simple hack like you tried.
Only works if installed to ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins/. More in comments.
Best Answer
As Gedit is just an editor and not intended for publishing/presentation this feature is unlikely to be found. Have yourself a look at the list of available plugins though.
As a workaround I suggest you go to View/Highlight Mode and select some script (I used
sh). Now every line that has a#at the beginning is displayed differently.