Can you do keyboard shortcuts in gedit?

ubuntu keyboard-shortcuts gedit

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Solution 1

Well if you want to at least set that option so you can customise existing menu entries, run:

gconf-editor

and navigate to /desktop/gnome/interface and check the box for can_change_accels

Other than that...nope, not much you can do. (PS: I like Kate more than Gedit)

Solution 2

Yes, you can fix these things... if you don't mind using another (any) other text editor to do it.

Note that when you make these changes, gedit must not even be running, because ~/.config/gedit/accels gets overwritten every time you exit gedit! Don't worry--once you change the shortcuts, the file will get rewritten harmlessly with your changes, though the lines may be rearranged.

Redo

To change Ctrl+Shift+Z to Ctrl+Y edit ~/.config/gedit/accels (see note below), and put this line in it:

(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/GeditWindowActions/EditRedo" "<Primary>y")

Tab Navigation

To override tab navigation to use Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDown, add these lines to ~/.config/gedit/accels (see note below):

(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/GeditWindowActions/DocumentsPreviousDocument" "<Control>Page_Up")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/GeditWindowActions/DocumentsNextDocument" "<Control>Page_Down")

Then put this in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css (to allow you override default gnome shortcuts):

@binding-set unbind-ctrl-page-up-dn {
        unbind "<ctrl>Page_Up";
        unbind "<ctrl>Page_Down";
}
GtkTreeView { gtk-key-bindings: unbind-ctrl-page-up-dn; }
GtkTextView { gtk-key-bindings: unbind-ctrl-page-up-dn; }

Note that you may have to create the gtk-3.0 directory and the gtk.css file yourself.

Restoring the 'Save' command

(see @Robru comment bellow)

Close gedit.
Open terminal - Ctrl+Alt+T
Execute command nano .config/gedit/accels

Find the following line:

(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/GeditWindowActions/FileSave" "")

Comment the line (add ; at the beginning):

; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/GeditWindowActions/FileSave" "")

Save the file:
1. Ctrl+X
2. Y
3. Enter
Close terminal - Ctrl+D
Start gedit.
...
Profit. :)

This info was taken from https://live.gnome.org/Gedit/KeyboardShortcuts

Solution 3

This page's comments contain some info about changing keyboard shortcuts: http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/KeyboardShortcuts

For example, you could install this plugin to edit some of them: http://empty.23inch.de/pmwiki.php/Main/EditShortcuts

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user123_456

Updated on September 17, 2022

Comments

user123_456 over 1 year

How can I create word document and add certain elements inside so it can be downloaded or sent by an email?

What can you suggest me? Some examples? Is this doable with JavaScript or PHP?
- Ram almost 11 years
  
  possible duplicate of CSS 2.1 compliant HTML to Microsoft Word conversion?
- PiLHA almost 11 years
  
  Some examples 1 2 3
robru over 11 years

This is amazing. I accidentally lost the Ctrl+S shortcut by using it in the External Tools plugin, and was left with no way graphical way of restoring the 'save' command... even after restarting gedit! Gedit is written in C, with mostly Python based plugins... why on earth does it have a scheme keybinding file? And what other lisp-y features of it am I not aware of?
Lambart about 11 years

Luckily, this is not (now) the case; see Pavel's answer.
user123_456 almost 11 years

idea is to select certain elements and use jquery to fill a div with those elements and after that export that to a ms-word
user123_456 almost 11 years

what would be a JS solution?
Laur Ivan almost 11 years

for js... apparently there's a docx.js. I don't use it myself so I can't vouch for it...
Laur Ivan almost 11 years

imho you'd be better off doing the operation on server (i.e. sending the selected elements e.g. via a POST to the server and processing the request there). Doing it in the client (js) is weird as it can be a rather long operation.
Lambart about 9 years

I've bookmarked this answer and used it to fix several systems over the years. I just tried it today with Ubuntu 14.04 and I was able to fix Ctrl-PgUp/Ctrl-PgDn, but what's strange is that although my changes persisted, gedit has overwritten the accels file with the OLD shortcuts. And I was unable to get Ctrl-Y (the most annoying, to me) to work. Anyone have any new ideas for 2015?
Saren Tasciyan about 8 years

This does not work. Gedit overwrites the accels file even if it is not running.
Velkan about 7 years

(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/GeditWindowActions/EditRedo" "<Primary>y") stays in the file fine, but has no effect.
foolo about 4 years

I have written a plugin that fixes some keyboard shortcuts, and it can be modified for more shortcuts. See github.com/foolo/gedit_custom_keys