How To: Gedit with the Click of a Button (GNOME)

Hello, everyone. :-)

Have you ever found yourself dealing with editing several files, and sighing at having to type out different "gedit" commands in the terminal?

If I correctly described an experience that you've had, the following tutorial is a must. [COLOR="Red"]My tutorial allows you to add "Open with gedit" to the Right-click menu, making it easy to gedit anything![/COLOR] :-)

First, we need to run this command in the terminal, making the file that will hold our script:

gedit ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/Open\ with\ gedit

Now, a blank document in the text editor should open. Copy and paste these contents:

#!/bin/bash
#
# Nautilus script -> open gedit
#
filesall=""
while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
files=`echo "$1″ | sed 's/ /\?/g'`
filesall="$files $filesall"
shift
done
gedit $filesall&

Now click save, and close the text editor.

Finally, we need to make the previous script executable. So let's run this command:

chmod u+x ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/Open\ with\ gedit

And that's it! Open up the file browser, and right-click on any file to test it out!

I hope I've helped to make someone's life a lot easier. Enjoy, everyone.

Isn't it way easier and more supported to use nautilus-action ? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91377

I find this guide redundant and a bit using the old way of doing things, opinions ?

frodon said: Isn't it way easier and more supported to use nautilus-action ?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91377

I find this guide redundant and a bit using the old way of doing things, opinions ?

+1

This is a user script and not a tutorial.

Not to discourage BslBryan , but IMO it belongs on a blog not the T&T section.

Ok i will delete it and propose the user a copy of his thread if he want one.

I think a nautilus-action up to date and complete tutorial would be great, so i will talk to him about it, just in case he's interested creating one.