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Python scripts

If medit is built with Python support, then Python scripts have full access to the program internals via builtin moo module. medit classes extend classes from pygtk, in particular the moo.edit.Edit class representing documents extends the gtk.TextView class, and all editing operations can be implemented using pygtk API.

Python scripts executed from inside medit have LIBDIR/plugins/lib and USERDATADIR/plugins/lib directories added to sys.path, you can place there medit-specific modules to be used from python tools.

Python scripts have the following variables predefined:

doc the current document object.
window the current editor window.
buffer the text buffer (a moo.edit.TextBuffer instance) of the current document.
editor the moo.edit.Editor object representing the text editor. Use its methods to open/close files, switch between documents and windows, etc.
moo the moo module, already imported so you can omit import moo statement in scripts.

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