https://hashbang.ca/tag/gedit Recent content in Gedit on Hashbang.ca Hugo en-us Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:03:00 -0400 https://hashbang.ca/post/trimming-whitespace-in-gedit-with-perl Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:03:00 -0400 https://hashbang.ca/post/trimming-whitespace-in-gedit-with-perl/ <p>With gedit plugins, you can turn this simple text editor into a lightweight IDE. It&rsquo;s fast, has good syntax highlighting, and can have code completion, shell integration, and many similar feature you might expect from an IDE. One feature it lacked was trimming whitespace from files. I searched for plugins to do this, and found several, but none of them quite met my expectations, because none were configurable. I typically want my files to end with one and only one newline. Of course, the solution is Perl.</p>