Gedit/ExternalToolsPluginSnippets

External Tools Plugin Command Collection

This page contains an overview of the of third party commands for the External Tools Plugin that shipped with gEdit. If you have wrote a command for the External Tool Plugin you can add it yourself here or send it via email to bart neeneenee de. The snippet must contain: headline, language, requirements, menu name, description, command, input, output and applicability. You can learn more about the External Tools Plugin at the gEdit user manual.

Check Website Links (commandline tool)

Language: Any
Requires: Linkchecker (commandline tool), Zenity
Menu Name: Check Links...
Description: Check for broken Links of a Website

#!/bin/sh
exec linkchecker `zenity --entry --title="Links prüfen" --width="500" --height="150" --text="Enter the URL to validate:\n " --entry-text "http://www." ` &

Input: None
Output: Display in bottom pane
Applicability: All documents

Check Website Links (GUI)

Language: Any
Requires: gURLchecker, Zenity
Menu Name: Check for broken Links of a Website
Description: Validate Links of a Website

#!/bin/sh
exec gurlchecker `zenity --entry --title="Links prüfen" --width="500" --height="150" --text="Enter the URL to validate:\n " --entry-text "http://www." ` &

Input: None
Output: Display in bottom pane
Applicability: All documents

Code Snippets

Language: Any
Requires: pySnippet
Menu Name: Code Snippets
Description: Insert Code Snippets

#!/bin/sh
python /usr/bin/pysnippet.py &

Input: None
Output: Display in bottom pane
Applicability: All documents

Comparing Files

Language: Any
Requires: Meld, Zenity
Menu Name: Compare With...
Description: Compare current document with another document

#!/bin/sh
TITLE="Compare With..."
TEXT="Compare $GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME with:"
BROWSE=" browse..."
FILE=
while [ -z "$FILE" ]; do
        FILE=`zenity --list --title="$TITLE" --text="$TEXT" --width=640 --height=320 --column=Documents $GEDIT_DOCUMENTS_PATH "$BROWSE"`
        if [ "$FILE" == "$BROWSE" ]; then
                FILE=`zenity --file-selection --title="$TITLE" --filename="$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_DIR/"`
        elif [ -z "$FILE" ]; then
                exit 
        fi
done
meld "$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_DIR/$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME" "$FILE" &

Input: Nothing
Output: Display in bottom pane
Applicability: Local files only

Directory listing

Language: Any
Requires: Shell
Menu Name: List current Directory
Description: List the directory of the current document

ls -l -h $GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_DIR

Input: Current document
Output: Display in bottom pane
Applicability: All documents

Environmet Variables listing

Language: Any
Requires: Shell Menu Name: List Environmet Variables Description: List the Environmet Variables of the system

env

Input: Current document
Output: Display in bottom pane
Applicability: All documents

Java compile and run

Language: Java
Requires: Java
Menu Name: Java compile and run
Description: Compile the current Java code and execute it

#!/bin/sh
cd $GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_DIR
if javac $GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME;
then
java ${GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME%\.java}
else
echo "Failed to compile"
fi

Input: Current document
Output: Display in bottom pane
Applicability: All documents

C compile and run

Language: C
Requires: gcc, xterm
Menu Name: C compile and run
Description: Compile the current C code and execute it

#!/bin/bash
gcc $GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME -o ${GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME%.*}
DESU=`echo ${GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME}|cut -d "." -f 1`
xterm -hold -e ./$DESU --working-directory=$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_DIR

Input: Nothing
Output: Display in bottom pane
Applicability: All documents

Lorem Ipsum Text

Language: Any
Requires: Lorem Ipsum Generator
Menu Name: Lorem Ipsum text...
Description: Create dummy text

#!/bin/sh
lorem-ipsum-generator &

Input: Current document
Output: Display in bottom pane
Applicability: All documents

PHP Code Formating

Language: PHP
Requires: PHP, PHP Pear
Menu Name: Reformat PHP code
Description: Reformat the PHP code of the current document

php_beautifier -s4 -l "ArrayNested() IndentStyles(style=bsd) NewLines(before=if:switch:while:for:foreach:function:T_CLASS:return:break,after=T_COMMENT)"

Input: Current document
Output: Create new document
Applicability: All documents

Rake

Language: Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Requires: Ruby on Rails, Ruby, Zenity
Menu Name: Rake Tasks
Description: Run Rake with selected Tasks

#!/bin/sh
rake `rake --tasks --silent  | cut -d" " -f2 | zenity --list --title="Select rake task" --column="Task"` &

Input: Current document
Output: Display in bottom pane
Applicability: All documents

Rename Files

Language: Any
Requires: PyRenamer
Menu Name: Rename files...
Description: Rename a sequence of files in the current directory

#!/bin/sh
pyrenamer --root $GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_DIR &

Input: Current document
Output: Display in bottom pane
Applicability: All documents

Ruby Execute

Language: Ruby
Requires: Ruby, Zenity
Menu Name: Ruby Execute
Description: Execute current document with Ruby

#!/bin/sh
ruby

Input: Current document
Output: Display in bottom pane
Applicability: All documents

Search/ Replace in Files

Language: Any
Requires: Regexxer
Menu Name: Search/ Replace in files...
Description: Search or Replace in files at the directory of the current document

#!/bin/sh
regexxer --hidden --ignore-case --line-number --pattern=$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME   $GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_DIR &

Input: Current document
Output: Display in bottom pane
Applicability: All documents

Validate/ Optimize CSS

Language: Cascading Stylesheets CSS
Requires: CSStidy, Zenity
Menu Name: Validate/ Optimize CSS...
Description: Validate or optimize the current cascading stylesheet

#!/bin/sh
zenity --question --title="Validate/ Optimize CSS" --text="Should the stylesheet file optimized too?"
case "$?" in
        0)
                exec csstidy "$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME"  --compress_colors=true --lowercase_s=true --optimise_shorthands=true --compress_font-weight=true --merge_selectors=true --template=high --discard_invalid_properties=false "$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME";;
        1)
                exec csstidy "$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME"  --compress_colors=true --lowercase_s=true --optimise_shorthands=true --compress_font-weight=true --merge_selectors=true --template=high --discard_invalid_properties=false "/tmp/$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME";;
        esac

Input: Current document
Output: Display in bottom pane
Applicability: All documents

Validate/ Reformat XHTML Code

Language: XHTML
Requires: Tidy, Zenity
Menu Name: Validate/ Reformat XHTML code
Description: Validate or reformates the current XHTML document

#!/bin/sh
zenity --question --title="Validate/ Reformat XHTML" --text="Should the XHTML file be reformated too?"
case "$?" in
        0)
                exec tidy -utf8 -i -w 80 -c -q -asxhtml "$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME";;
        1)
                exec tidy -e -utf8 -q  "$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME";;
        esac

Input: Current document
Output: Create new document
Applicability: All documents

Validate/ Reformat XML Code

Language: XML, SVG, X3D
Requires: XMLlint, Zenity
Menu Name: Validate/ Reformat XML code
Description: Validate or reformates the current XML document

#!/bin/sh
zenity --question --title="Prüfen auf valides XML" --text="Soll das XML-Dokument auch formatiert werden?"
case "$?" in
        0)
                xmllint --postvalid --format --dtdattr $GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_DIR/$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME;;
        1)
                xmllint --postvalid --dtdattr --noout  $GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_DIR/$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME;;
        esac

Input: Current document
Output: Create new document
Applicability: All documents

Validate PHP Code

Language: PHP
Requires: PHP
Menu Name: Validate PHP code
Description: Validate the PHP code of the current document

php -l

Input: Current document
Output: Display in bottom pane
Applicability: All documents

Validate Python Code

Language: Python
Requires: Python
Menu Name: Validate Python code
Description: Validate the Python code of the current document

python -d

Input: Current document
Output: Display in bottom pane
Applicability: All documents

Compile and View LilyPond Scores

Language: LilyPond
Requires: GNU LilyPond, Evince
Menu Name: LilyPond Compile and View
Description: Compile and View the current LilyPond document. Must have extension '.ly'.

#!/bin/bash
# Store the file name in a variable
FILE_NAME=$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME
# Check if file extension is .ly
if [ `echo $FILE_NAME | cut -d "." -f 2` = "ly" ]
then
#Make LilyPond file
lilypond $FILE_NAME
DOC_NAME=`echo $FILE_NAME | cut -d "." -f 1`
evince $DOC_NAME'.pdf' &
fi
exit 0

Input: Current document
Output: Display in bottom pane
Applicability: All documents

Grepall

Language: Any
Requires: Grepall
Menu Name: Grepall
Description: Searches for references to the selected text in documents within the current directory with the same extension as the current document. Outputs file name and page number of each reference in the bottom pane.

#!/bin/bash
search=`xargs -0 echo`
$HOME/bin/grepall -e `echo $GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME | cut -d. -f2` "$search"

Input: Current selection
Output: Display in bottom pane
Applicability: All documents

Gedit/ExternalToolsPluginSnippets (last edited 2008-10-03 08:02:29 by TomDelusinne)

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External Tools Plugin Command Collection

Check Website Links (commandline tool)

Check Website Links (GUI)

Code Snippets

Comparing Files

Directory listing

Environmet Variables listing

Java compile and run

C compile and run

Lorem Ipsum Text

PHP Code Formating

Rake

Rename Files

Ruby Execute

Search/ Replace in Files

Validate/ Optimize CSS

Validate/ Reformat XHTML Code

Validate/ Reformat XML Code

Validate PHP Code

Validate Python Code

Compile and View LilyPond Scores

Grepall

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