Code Auto-Complete Plug-in for Gedit 3

The Code Auto-Complete Plug-in will allow the user to complete their code with ease and allow faster development.

Parts of this plugin are based on the work of Guillaume Chazarain and Elias Holzer

Requirements

The plugin requires exuberant-ctags to be installed on the system.

To install Exuberant Ctags on Ubuntu, use the following command:

    sudo apt-get install exuberant-ctags

The plug-in was developed and tested for Gedit 3.10.4

Installation

• Download the files on your computer

• Copy the files auto-complete.plugin, auto-complete.py and helper.py in the following folder:

      ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins/
  

  ~/ denotes your home folder. The .local folder is hidden by default. You can unhide it by pressing Ctrl+H. The folder gedit may not be present by default, so, you may have to create it.

• Enable the plug-in from the gedit menu: Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins

Usage

This plug-in allows you to use auto completion like you're used to it in any unix console. Write the first few characters of a word you've already written in your text and hit Tab. If there are more possibilities hit Tab more times to go through the results.

Press Ctrl + Tab to iterate backwards in the case you you've gone too far.

If you cycled through a few words, found the one you were looking for and want to write a tabulator, hit a key like Shift or Alt and Tab afterwards.

Languages Supported

This plug-in current supports the following languages:

• C
• Python
• Ruby

Support for more languages will be added soon along with other auto-completion features.

If there are any issues, please let me know.