Editing Help:Text editor support (section)

===gedit===

[[gedit]] is a cross-platform, free software text editor that comes bundled with [[Ubuntu (operating system)|Ubuntu]] Linux by default. A [[GPL]]-licensed MediaWiki syntax highlight mode is shipped by default with ''gedit 3.10'' and newer.

For older versions, you can download it at https://github.com/jpfleury/gedit-mediawiki/archive/master.zip, unzip, and copy the language file to the correct folder, or you can run the following in a GNU/Linux shell:

* For gedit 2.x:
<div style="margin-left:1em;"><syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
wget --output-document=master.zip https://github.com/jpfleury/gedit-mediawiki/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/
cp gedit-mediawiki-master/mediawiki.lang ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/
</syntaxhighlight></div>

* For gedit 3.x:
<div style="margin-left:1em;"><syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
wget --output-document=master.zip https://github.com/jpfleury/gedit-mediawiki/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-3.0/language-specs/
cp gedit-mediawiki-master/mediawiki.lang ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-3.0/language-specs/
</syntaxhighlight></div>

To select the MediaWiki syntax highlight mode, go to the gedit menu ''View > Highlight Mode > Others'' and select ''MediaWiki''.