Current mood:

impressed

Customizing gedit as a Web Developer’s IDE
There are very simple changes those you can make to your favorite text editor "gedit" to make it a ppwerful developer tool.
Personally, I like to have the following preferences set from Edit menu:

* View >
Uncheck "Enable text wrapping"
Check "Display line numbers"
Check "Highlight current line"
Check "Display right margin" and set to 80. (I manually wrap my code at 80 characters)
Highlight matching bracket (when cursor is at a bracket, it's pair is highlighted as shown in the image above).

* Editor >
Check "Use spaces instead of tabs" and set "Tab width" to 4. (We can use modelines to change this from file to file)
Check "Enable auto indentation"
Uncheck "Create a backup copy of file before saving". (I manually backup everything before I start work)

* Font and Colors > Uncheck "Use default theme font" and set "Editor Font" to "Monospace 10".

* Plugins tab > check the box next to 'File Browser Pane' and tag list.

http://www.micahcarrick.com/09-29-2007/gedit-html-editor.html