Re: [gedit-list] The plugin mentality

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 13:33 +0100, Sebastian Posch wrote: 
> Perhaps a more elegant way (than having all plugins installed by 
> default) would be an "Add-ons" menu like in Firefox.

That would be very nice.

> Most gedit plugins I installed don't seem to live on the 
> official gnome site but come from some random blogs.

+1

>> From: Thomas Biggs<tnbiggs yahoo com>
>> By supporting plugins, gedit leaves basic features out of its editor.

-1

>> Now days most text editors have such basic features as block column
>> editing, sorting, and syntax editing for a handful of languages (C++,
>> Java, Python) built-in.

Distro's are free to install plugins by default.  My openSUSE install
came with numerous plugins and some of them enabled by default ( the
package is gedit-plugins-2.30.0-2.5.x86_64 and, of course, the excellent
seahorse-plugins-gedit )