Opening a File from a URI

To open a file from a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), perform the following steps:

  1. Choose File ▸ Open Location to display the Open Location dialog.
  2. Enter the URI of the file that you want to open.
  3. Use the Character coding drop-down list to select the appropriate character coding.
  4. Click Open.

Valid types of URI include http:, ftp:, file:, and all of the methods supported by gnome-vfs.

Files from some types of URI are opened as read-only, and any changes you make must be saved to a different location. HTTP only allows files to be read. Files opened from FTP are read-only because because not all FTP servers may correctly work with saving remote files.

Saving to FTP servers can be enabled with Configuration Editor, setting the key /apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/save/writable_vfs_schemes, but this may cause errors.