xed-restore-tabs-plugin

Porting of the Gedit Restore Tabs plugin to Xed

Requirements

To compile some libraries are needed:

• meson
• ninja-build
• valac
• libpeas-1.0-dev
• libpeas-gtk-1.0
• libglib2.0-dev
• libgtk-3-dev
• libgtksourceview-4-dev
• libxapp-dev
• xed-dev

To install on Ubuntu based distros:

sudo apt install meson ninja-build build-essential valac cmake libgtk-3-dev libpeas-dev xed-dev libxapp-dev libgtksourceview-4-dev

Install

On Mint/LMDE you can use the provided deb package (maybe works also for Ubuntu 20.04 but not tested)

Clone the repository and from inside the cloned folder:

git clone https://github.com/tudo75/xed-restore-tabs-plugin.git
cd xed-restore-tabs-plugin
meson setup build --prefix=/usr
ninja -v -C build com.github.tudo75.xed-restore-tabs-plugin-gmo
ninja -v -C build
ninja -v -C build install

Uninstall

To uninstall and remove all added files, go inside the cloned folder and:

sudo ninja -v -C build uninstall
sudo rm /usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.tudo75.xed-restore-tabs-plugin.mo
sudo rm /usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.tudo75.xed-restore-tabs-plugin.mo

Instructions

Plugin must be enabled from Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins -> Restore Tabs

Pay attention if you have more than one working window open. Plugin restore the list of opened files only for last closed window.

Credits

Based on this Gedit Plugin

https://github.com/Quixotix/gedit-restore-tabs

My Xed Plugins

• xed-terminal-plugin https://github.com/tudo75/xed-terminal-plugin
• xed-codecomment-plugin https://github.com/tudo75/xed-codecomment-plugin
• xed-sessionsaver-plugin https://github.com/tudo75/xed-sessionsaver-plugin
• xed-restore-tabs-plugin https://github.com/tudo75/xed-restore-tabs-plugin
• xed-plantuml-plugin https://github.com/tudo75/xed-plantuml-plugin