<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
      type="topic" style="task"
      id="gedit-plugins-quick-open">
  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="gedit-plugin-guide#gedit-default-plugins"/>
    <revision version="3.4" date="2013-02-24" status="review"/>
    <revision version="3.8" date="2013-04-23" status="review"/>
    <revision version="3.24" date="2017-09-17" status="review"/>

    <credit type="author">
      <name>Jim Campbell</name>
      <email>jcampbell@gnome.org</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Shobha Tyagi</name>
      <email>tyagishobha@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>

    <desc>Quickly open a file or set of files.</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Quick open</title>

  <p>As the name of this plugin would imply, the <app>Quick Open</app> plugin
  helps you to open files more quickly than using the usual ways of opening
  files. To enable this plugin, select <guiseq><gui style="menu">gedit</gui>
  <gui>Preferences</gui><gui>Plugins</gui><gui>Quick Open</gui></guiseq>.</p>
    
  <p>Once you have enabled the <app>Quick Open</app> plugin you can use it as
  follows:</p>

  <steps>
    <item><p>Open the <app>Quick Open</app> dialog box by pressing
    <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>Alt</key><key>O</key></keyseq>, or by selecting
    <gui style="menuitem">Quick Open…</gui>.</p>
    <p>The <gui>Quick Open</gui> file dialog will appear.</p></item>
    <item><p>Use your mouse to select the file or files that you want to
    open.</p>
    <p>To select several individual files, hold down your <key>Ctrl</key> key
    while you click on the files that you want to open.</p>
    <p>To select a group of files, click on the first file that you want to
    open, hold down the <key>Shift</key> key, and then click on the last file
    in the list that you want to open.</p></item>
    <item><p>Click <gui>Open</gui>.</p></item>
  </steps>

  <p><app>Quick Open</app> will look for files in:</p>

  <list>
    <item><p>The directory of the currently opened document</p></item>
    <item><p>The root directory of the
    <app xref="gedit-plugins-file-browser">File Browser Pane</app>
    plugin</p></item>
    <item><p>Recent documents which are also shown in the <file>Recent</file>
    folder in <app>Files</app></p></item>
    <item><p>Directories which you have bookmarked in
    <app>Files</app></p></item>
    <item><p>Your <file>Desktop</file> directory</p></item>
    <item><p>Your <file>Home</file> directory</p></item>
  </list>

  <note style="tip">
    <p><app>Quick Open</app> displays files in any of the above locations
    regardless of whether or not you have opened them previously.</p>
  </note>

</page>
