Ubuntu – How to edit the autosave interval of gedit

gconfgeditsource

Can you people tell me how to edit gedit, please?

I want to change the autosave feature so that it saves every 1 second, I was able to investigate further that I needed gconf-editor so I installed it but when I launched it and went to /apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/save/auto_save it says:

This key has no schema, so I found this: http://www.mail-archive.com/scientific-linux-users@listserv.fnal.gov/msg08917.html

but it doesn't work.

I would really like to do this, but, otherwise, what is the best solution?

To change the source code and compile and gedit with autosaves of only 1 second?

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I have to ask, why do you need gedit to save every second?

Gedit's autosave interval seemingly can only be adjusted at a one-minute resolution. I can give you commands to do it on the command line, but you'll still be only able to set a 1-minute autosave timer.

gsettings set org.gnome.gedit.preferences.editor auto-save true
gsettings set org.gnome.gedit.preferences.editor auto-save-interval 1

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Ubuntu – How to enable Gedit autosave files with name of current system Date and Time

There is a plugin available that will do the job.

Download "doublesave.zip" from here.
Extract the contents and copy doublesave.plugin and doublesave.py to ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins. If the folder does not exist, you will need to create it.
Also create ~/gedit-backups because the backup files will be stored here.
Open gedit and enable the Doublesave plugin: select Edit ▸ Preferences ▸ Plugins ▸ [Name of Plugin] to enable the plugin.

From now on, each time you save a file in gedit while working, a timestamped backup is created in ~/gedit-backups.

It is also possible to tweak some things. For example, I've recently installed Dropbox and wanted to have gedit-backups in my Dropbox folder rather than in ~/home/user. And I preferred my timestamp to be %Y%m%d%H%M%S rather than %Y_%m_%d-%H_%M_%S.

To make both those changes, edit ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins/doublesave.py.

create a folder called gedit-backups in the desired location
open gedit, and untick the Doublesave plugin
exit gedit
delete ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins/doublesave.pyc

edit ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins/doublesave.py

look for

homedir = os.path.expanduser("~")+"/gedit-backups/"
commands.getoutput("mkdir "+homedir)

name = doc.get_short_name_for_display()

timestamp = datetime.now().strftime("%Y_%m_%d-%H_%M_%S")

ext = ".bak"
newFileName =  name+"-" + timestamp + ext
newpath = "\""+homedir + newFileName+"\""
command = "cp \""+source+"\" "+ newpath
print command
commands.getoutput(command)
commands.getoutput("chmod -w "+newpath)

change homedir = os.path.expanduser("~")+"/gedit-backups/" to what is required. I use homedir = os.path.expanduser("~")+"/Dropbox/gedit-backups/"
change the timestamp as needed. I changed "%Y_%m_%d-%H_%M_%S" to "%Y%m%d%H%M%S"
save the file
reopen gedit and reinstall the Doublesave plugin.

Ubuntu – How to activate the Gedit terminal plugin

After you are sure that gedit-plugins is installed, (re)open gedit and navigate to Edit → Preferences and select Plugins tab. Here you must to tick Embedded Terminal. Then when you will press Ctrl+F9, a terminal will appear in bottom pane:

Embedded terminal in gedit

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