Automatic quote insertion in gedit

[Nils Reimann]

Hi there,

i just saw a nice feature in a mac os text editor called wrangler.
in wrangler you can select a text block an in / decrease quote levels.

so if you have

--
Hi this is
a test
--

you can mark the two lines, Choos edit -> incease quote level from the
text menu. and voila, you have

--
 > Hi this is
 > a test
--

Of course you can increase many times.

I've searched for a similar feature for gedit, but haven't found one.
Maybe you guys know a plugin or a hint?

thank you!

nils
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[Jesse van den Kieboom-2]

Hello Nils,

If by 'quote' you mean 'indentation', you can do this in gedit using
'<tab>' when you select some text (or '<shift><tab>' to unindent).


Jesse

Nils wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> i just saw a nice feature in a mac os text editor called wrangler.
> in wrangler you can select a text block an in / decrease quote levels.
>
> so if you have
>

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[Curtis Hovey]

Hi Nils.

On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 13:38 +0200, Nils wrote:

> i just saw a nice feature in a mac os text editor called wrangler.
> in wrangler you can select a text block an in / decrease quote levels.
>
> so if you have
>
> --
> Hi this is
> a test
> --
>
> you can mark the two lines, Choos edit -> incease quote level from
> the
> text menu. and voila, you have
>
> --
>  > Hi this is
>  > a test
> --

The GDP format can quote. It is under Edit > Format > Quote lines. The
key accel is is Alt+q

   https://launchpad.net/gdp

It does not support decrease, I have never needed that.

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[Jesse van den Kieboom-2]

Jesse van den Kieboom wrote:
> Hello Nils,
>
> If by 'quote' you mean 'indentation', you can do this in gedit using
> '<tab>' when you select some text (or '<shift><tab>' to unindent).
If you mean prepending something before a line, you could try the
multi-edit plugin I recently developed, which will hopefully soon be
merged into gedit-plugins: http://github.com/jessevdk/gedit-multi-edit


Jesse

>
>
> Jesse
>
> Nils wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> i just saw a nice feature in a mac os text editor called wrangler.
>> in wrangler you can select a text block an in / decrease quote levels.
>>
>> so if you have
>>
>
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