Sometime back one of my friend tweeted saying he could install notepad++ using wine on Ubuntu. We had a good discussion on why he doesn’t prefer using gedit or similar applications which come as native applications for Linux. His argument was because Notepad++ is highly extensible. So, I thought of looking at ways to extend gedit and make it gedit++ . Following guide will show how to extend gedit to make it even more powerful text editor that what it already is.

Enabling Line Numbers on Gedit

Line numbers are very important for coders and by default gedit doesn’t have line numbers enabled. More >