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It’s a lot easier for me to hit ctrl-f than the right arrow key. Especially since I use my caps-lock as a ctrl key. These are Emacs navigation key combinations, and I can’t really work without them. TextMate has them built-in which is wonderful, Gedit on the other hand does not.

However, you can dig into your gconf settings and specify a “gtk key theme” other than the default one. You can specify emacs! Doing so, will allow you to use key combo’s like ctrl-f in Gedit and other Gtk applications.

Set the value of:

/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme

To:

Emacs

I’ve put together a couple of Gedit plugins and snippets that will help your developing rails projects in Gnome.

Download gedit-rails at github.

This package includes a script that will register ERB templates and YAML files with gtksourceview. That means that you will get some nice syntax highlighting! Enjoy!