Auto closing tags in gedit -- can a man dream?

Question

Top of the morning to y'all.

I recently switched to Debian and I'm finding gedit 3 to be a worthy replacement for notepad++.

I have one complaint though: I can't find a plugin which will close tags for me.

Example:

When I type the following

<p>

As soon as I type the ending >, I want </p> to be inserted.

<p>_</p>

The cursor should remain between the two tags, where I placed the _ character.

Anything that'll do this for me?

PS: Please resist the urge of telling me to man up and just use vim/emacs :(

Answer 1

maybe try Geany?

Please look at the Geany snippets video.

Answer 2

It might be beyond your dreams, but there is Zen coding out there giving you an intelligent autocomleting syntax. There are two ports for gedit from fmarcia and mikecrittenden.

Answer 3

The gedit plugin "intelligent text completion" inserts the appropriate closing tag at the insertion of "</" just like Macromedia Dreamweaver. This functionality comes close to what you describe.

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