Install Gedit Using Brew

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bioSyntax comes with a handy installation script. Simply download the latest release and run:

Brew search name. To download and install that package: brew install name. To remove that package from your system later: brew remove name. For more details on using these commands, read the Homebrew Cask Usage guide or the Homebrew brew command manual on their official websites. Not every graphical application or Unix utility you’re looking. Install gedit: brew install gedit or brew cask install gedit To check if the installation was completed, in terminal type which gedit; echo $? And press enter. Gedit is correctly installed if you see the following message: /usr/local/bin/gedit 0.Install XQuartz: brew install xquartz or brew cask install xquartz.

Note: Some of the installation script requires super-user commands at the moment. If you don’t have permissions or don’t like this; simply follow the Manual Installation instructions below, but some files will need to be placed in paths accessed via root as well. For Windows, the script runs best with the Git Bash terminal, which may be required to be run as an administrator.

Forking bioSyntax for development

For installing bioSyntax, download the latest zip release.

To clone/fork the complete bioSyntax repository including development files and submodules, use:

Sublime

(Linux / Mac / Win)

via Package Control (Easiest, no admin/sudo privileges required):

  • Install Package Control for Sublime.
  • In Sublime, Preferences > Package Control > Package Control: Install Package and search for bioSyntax.

Manual Install (sudo/admin privileges may be required):

  1. Install Sublime Text 3.

  2. Unzip the downloaded bioSyntax release.

  3. Copy the $bioSyntax/sublime/*.sublime-syntax files into the Sublime Packages folder:
    • Linux: ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/bioSyntax/
    • Windows: ~/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Packages/bioSyntax/
    • Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/bioSyntax/

  4. Copy over the $bioSyntax/sublime/bioSyntax.tmTheme theme file

  5. Formats should auto-detect; you can select a specific syntax at the drop-menu at the bottom-right corner of the window (e.g. Plain Text)

  6. Restart Sublime and you now have pretty formats!

gedit

(Linux / Win)

Manual Install (sudo/admin privileges may be required):

  1. Install Gedit.
  2. Unzip the downloaded bioSyntax release.
  3. In bioSyntax folder copy gedit style, $bioSyntax/gedit/bioSyntax.xml, file to the appropriate gtksourceview styles folder.
    • Linux: $HOME/.local/share/gtksourceview-3.0/styles
    • Windows: /c/Program Files/gedit/share/gtksourceview-3.0/styles/
  4. Copy the gedit *.lang files to the appropriate gtksourceview language-spec folder.
    • Linux: $HOME/.local/share/gtksourceview-3.0/language-specs
    • Windows: /c/Program Files/gedit/share/gtksourceview-3.0/language-specs/

  5. Restart gedit and select the bioSyntax theme

    Edit > Preferences > Font & Color > bioSyntax

  6. You now have pretty formats!

via Debian/Ubuntu repositories:

bioSyntax-gedit will be available into official repositories of Debian 10 and Ubuntu 18.10 (both are not yet released).

Meanwhile, you can manually install deb package available here or using the bioSyntax PPA:

Once, the package is installed, please read /usr/share/doc/biosyntax-gedit/README.Debian to activate the plugin.

vim

(Linux / Mac / Win)

via Pathogen (Easiest installation, may require sudo/admin privileges):

Install gedit using brew 10

If you have Pathogen and Git installed:

Manual install

  1. Unzip the downloaded bioSyntax release.
  2. Find your vim profile folder, and make a syntax, ftdetect, and colors directories in it, if they don’t exist.
    • Linux/Mac: ~/.vim/
    • Windows: $HOME/vimfiles/

  3. Turn on syntax highlighting by default in your vim configuration file. (~/.vimrc or $HOME/_vimrc)

  4. Copy the vim syntax, auto-detection, and colour files from bioSyntax/vim into the respective vim folders:

  5. Restart vim and you now have pretty formats!

via Debian/Ubuntu repositories:

bioSyntax-vim will be available into official repositories of Debian 10 and Ubuntu 18.10 (both are not yet released).

Meanwhile, you can manually install deb package available here or using the bioSyntax PPA:

Once, the package is installed, please read /usr/share/doc/biosyntax-vim/README.Debian to activate the plugin.

less

(Linux, Mac)NOTE: Syntax-highlighting can be turned off using :syntax off or removing the :syntax enable line from the .vimrc/_vimrc file.

Manual Install (Hardest installation, sudo privileges may be required):

  1. Ensure that your applications/packages are up-to-date:
    • Linux: sudo apt-get update
    • Mac: (Installing source-highlight is easiest via homebrew. The following updates brew if it is installed; installs it otherwise.)
  2. Install source-highlight to your system:
    • Linux: sudo apt-get install source-highlight
    • Mac: (install/update via brew)

  3. Unzip the downloaded bioSyntax release, $bioSyntax.

  4. In the $bioSyntax/less/ folder, copy the biosyntax.outlang and biosyntax-vcf.outlang files to the source-highlight folder:
    • Linux: $HOME/.local/share/source-highlight
    • Mac: /usr/local/opt/source-highlight/share/source-highlight/

  5. Copy the bioSyntax language and style definition files (*.lang and *.style) to same paths as above:

  6. Find and replace source-highlight’s src-hilite-lesspipe.sh script with $bioSyntax/less/src-hilite-lesspipe_bio.sh. Make the script executable.

  7. In the $bioSyntax/less/ folder, append the appropriate *_append.txt file to your shell configuration file (rc file).
    • Linux: Use $bioSyntax/less/rc_append.txt

  • Mac: Uses $bioSyntax/less/bp_append.txt

  1. Restart your computer for your rc files to update, open a file with less and you now have pretty formats!

via Debian/Ubuntu repositories:

Install Gedit Using Brew Command

bioSyntax-less will be available into official repositories of Debian 10 and Ubuntu 18.10 (both are not yet released).

Install Gedit Using Brewing

Meanwhile, you can manually install deb package available here or using the bioSyntax PPA:

Once, the package is installed, please read /usr/share/doc/biosyntax-less/README.Debian to activate the plugin.

Using

vscode

(Linux / Mac / Win)

  1. Open Visual Studio Code
  2. Open Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+X for Windows/Linux and ⇧+⌘+X for Mac)
  3. Search “bioSyntax”
  4. Click Install
  5. When you open a bioSyntax-compatible file, the theme should automatically be applied. However, if it doesn’t change, you can manually change your theme to bioSyntax (Ctrl+K Ctrl+T for Windows/Linux and ⌘+K ⌘+T for Mac).

Uninstalling bioSyntax :’(

About the App

  • App name: gedit
  • App description: gedit (App: gedit.app)
  • App website: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit

Install the App

  1. Press Command+Space and type Terminal and press enter/return key.
  2. Run in Terminal app:
    ruby -e '$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)' 2> /dev/null
    and press enter/return key. If you are prompted to enter your Mac's user password, enter it (when you type it, you wont see it on your screen/terminal.app but it would accept the input; this is to ensure no one can see your password on your screen while you type it. So just type password and press enter, even if you dont see it on your screen). Then wait for the command to finish.
  3. Run:
    brew install gedit

Done! You can now use gedit.