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

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>gedit <gui>Preferences<gui>Plugins<gui>Quick Open</guiseq>.

Once you have enabled the <app>Quick Open</app> plugin you can use it as follows:

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Open the <app>Quick Open</app> dialog box by pressing <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>Alt</key><key>O</key></keyseq>, or by selecting Quick Open….

The <gui>Quick Open file dialog will appear.

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Use your mouse to select the file or files that you want to open.

To select several individual files, hold down your <key>Ctrl</key> key while you click on the files that you want to open.

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.

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Click <gui>Open.

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

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The directory of the currently opened document

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The root directory of the File Browser Panel plugin

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Recent documents which are also shown in the <file>Recent</file> folder in <app>Files

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Directories which you have bookmarked in <app>Files

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Your <file>Desktop</file> directory

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Your <file>Home</file> directory

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<app>Quick Open displays files in any of the above locations regardless of whether or not you have opened them previously.