go-gedit-plugin

go-gedit-plugin is a Go programming language plugin for gedit editor.

Current features

• Code completion (gocode)
• Autoformatting (gofmt)
• Shortcuts for toggling comments

Code completion activates with shortcut ctrl-space.

Prerequisites for installation

Before actual installation perform these steps:

1. Set environmental variable $GOBIN to the correct path and preferably add it into your $PATH as instructed in http://golang.org/doc/install.html. go-gedit-plugin will need to know this path. If you do not set it, then you have to set it in gedit: Preferences->Plugins->Go plugin: GOBIN Path.

2. Install gocode for code completion support.

3. Make sure you have a go.lang Go syntax coloring file on your system, if you want syntax coloring. The file should be located in /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs. If you don't have it, get it from here, http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtksourceview/plain/data/language-specs/go.lang. Just copy it to the said folder.

Installation

To perform the actual installation you can just copy GoPlugin.gedit-plugin file and GoPlugin directory to ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins in your home folder to install the plugin for yourself or to folder /usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins to install it for everyone.

If you don't want to recopy the files with every new release, it's recommended to clone the project and make symbolic links of the files to one of the plugin folders.

Example installation in home folder:

cd
hg clone -b release https://bitbucket.org/fzzbt/go-gedit-plugin
ln -s ~/go-gedit-plugin/go-gedit-plugin.gedit-plugin ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins/
ln -s ~/go-gedit-plugin/go-gedit-plugin ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins/

To update to a newer release just perform the following:

cd ~/go-gedit-plugin
hg pull -u -b release

Known issues

Issues caused by gtksourceview

• Pointless "Go code completion" header is displayed in code completion to avoid crashing (see bug)
• Code completion dialog forgets "Details..." setting after exiting gedit.