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Asked: 2012-08-10 03:43:45 +0800 CST

Install Regex plugin for Gedit

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I am using Ubuntu 12.04.I want to install Regex Search and Replace plugin for Gedit.So can some one please tell me where can I get it and install it.Any help and suggestions will be highly appreciable.

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  1. Best Answer

    Download Regular Expression Plugin for Gedit 3. Extract the tar package , then copy it to Gedit plugins directory from the Extracted folder.

    For a particular user , do 

     cd ~/Downloads
 wget 'https://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=regex_replace-gedit3.tar.gz' -o regex_replace-gedit3.tar.gz
 tar xf regex_replace-gedit3.tar.gz
 mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins 
 mv ~/Downloads/regex_replace ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins

    And for the all the users in system 

    sudo cp -r ~/Downloads/regex_replace /usr/lib/gedit/plugins/

    After copying the plugin you can enable it in Gedit 3 under Edit > Preferences, clicking on Plugins tab and checking the box for Regex Search and Replace.

    Another alternate is also available as Advanced Find / Replace

    P.S. : Thanks mac9416 for suggesting the individual User part.

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  2. The best plugin I have found is Advanced find / replace plugin for gedit that you can find in http://code.google.com/p/advanced-find/.

    About how to install, you can follow the instructions in its wiki page http://code.google.com/p/advanced-find/wiki/Installation.

    Basically what you must do is:

    1. Download the correct version for your gedit from http://code.google.com/p/advanced-find/downloads/list.

    2. Decompress it.

    3. Run install.sh (without sudo).

    4. Go to preferences / plug-in and activate it.

    It have many many features like search in opened files or bookmark a search.

    Screen capture of Advanced Find/Replace dialog opened

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  3. At least for Ubuntu 14.04, there is a regex plugin available from the gedit-developers-plugins package. If this package doesn't work for you, as it didn't work for me, here is the solution.

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