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Part III: Getting Things Done
Figure 11-1:
The gedit
window
in Ubuntu,
showing a
blank file.
Entering and editing text in gedit
To enter text in gedit, just click in the big white space and start typing. You
have access to the standard collection of editing tools, such as cut, paste,
and copy. To use these, select the text you want to work with and then click
the appropriate button on the gedit toolbar (or right-click and choose the
appropriate command from the context menu).
The interesting thing about this particular text editor is its plugins. The
gedit plugins provide advanced features that turn the simple gedit text
editor into an almost full-featured word processor. Some of the more popular
plugins available can spellcheck, automatically indent lines, add the current
date and time, and even provide sentence, word, and character counts. (We
talk about other plugins in the “Setting preferences” section.)
Saving your work
As with most programs, you have two choices for saving your work. You can
save your work and keep going or save it and then close the program. To just
save the file and keep going, follow these steps: