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  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="gedit-plugin-guide#gedit-default-plugins"/>
    <desc>Quickly open a file or set of files.</desc>
  
    <mal:credit xmlns:mal="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="translator copyright">
      <mal:name>Zander Brown</mal:name>
      <mal:email>zbrown@gnome.org</mal:email>
      <mal:years>2020</mal:years>
    </mal:credit>
  </info>

  <title>Quick open</title>

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

  <steps>
    <item><p>Open the <app>Quick Open</app> dialogue 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 dialogue 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 Panel</app> plug-in</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>
