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I do a lot of coding within linux, and unfortunately I sometimes code with a language that doesn’t have a standard GUI based IDE.  My thesis work actually had me coding in TinyOS which is nesC based (derived from C).  Although there is an Eclipse plugin for TinyOS, it isn’t 100% bug free.  Usually I end up coding in GEdit, and then firing up the terminal to compile and download the code onto my hardware.

I managed to come across a wonderful plugin for gedit.  By running the following command, you can get a few more plugins than what is bundled out of the box:

sudo apt-get install gedit-plugins

As you can see from the screen shot below, I now have a Terminal embedded in the “bottom pane” of Gedit.  Very useful for those of you who program /compile in the terminal like myself.

Terminal Is In The Bottom Pane