I'm using gedit and trying to wrestle it into a real IDE. What I want is to map ctrlshift| to run my tidy
tool when the file type is "text/html" and my autopep8
tool when the file type is "text/x-python".
As it turns out (and I think this is a bug), gedit doesn't care what filetype you've specified. If you have a key combo set, it will run a tool whether or not the filetype matches. Related, but maybe not a bug, I can only set the keyboard shortcut to one external tool.
So I wrote one external tool that runs on ctrlshift| and runs autopep8
if the document is Python and tidy
if the document is HTML:
#!/bin/sh
# [Gedit Tool]
# Save-files=document
# Shortcut=<Primary><Shift>bar
# Output=replace-document
# Name=Tidy by Filetype
# Applicability=all
# Input=document
if [ $GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_TYPE = "text/x-python" ]; then
autopep8 - -v -a
elif [ $GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_TYPE = "text/html" ]; then
#-i auto indents, -w 80 wrap at 80 chars, -c replace font tags w/CSS
exec tidy -utf8 -i -w 80 -c "$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME"
elif [ $GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_TYPE = "text/css" ]; then
#TK CSS tidy
else
echo "This seems to be " $GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_TYPE " I don't know how to tidy that."
fi
That second to last line is the one that is breaking my heart. If I don't define any action for that last else
it just deletes my existing document. If I run ctrlshift| and the file-type isn't one that I've accounted for, I'd like it to report the file type to the shell output, not replace the document contents with
This seems to be application/x-shellscript I don't know how to tidy
that.
Is there a way to write my tool so that I write some output to the shell and some to the document?