Well, today I discovered great thing – gedit plugins. As a default in Fedora they are mostly turned off, but I couldn’t resist and most of them I turned on, as they seems to be really usable. To list a few there are external tools (so that you can run from gedit whatever command you want, e.g. run make in the directory you are in), modelines (really cool. It can replace all tabs with spaces. Nice for spec files. Also it allows automatic indentation), snippets (really makes coding faster), file browser pane and tag list (really really cool thing for XHTML/CSS).
And from “notepad” you can make and developers lair:
About linux there is one good thing. You can learn something new even when using an application you thought you knew throughoutly…
EDIT: I’ve just found, that the plugins I discovered is just only the beginning of a bigger world. There tons of plugins available gedit, see
GEdit-Plugins. Some of them are also available in fedora, install the package gedit-plugins and you’ll see 
July 28, 2007 at 7:52 pm
Hello, Fëannatar! I’ve download the gedit-plugins package. But I can’t find any way to access or configure them in gedit. It’s like they are not installed.
Can you help?
Thanks a lot. Duli
August 2, 2007 at 1:57 pm
You should be able to configure them via Edit>Preferences>Plugins