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Installation instructions
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This Plugin is installed like any other gedit plugin; Extract 
the files from the archive and copy the following two files 
into the gedit plugins directory:
- encdec.gedit-plugin
- encdec.py

The directory is ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins for current user and
/usr/share/gedit-2/plugins globally (in ubuntu).

Alternatively, to install for just the current user, extract
the files and run install.sh (You might need to make it 
executable by running "chmod +x install.sh")

Using the Plugin
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First, activate the plugin in gedit by opening 
Edit > Preferences. Switch to the "Plugins" tab and find encdec
plugin in the list. Switch on the check box. Done.

While editing text, you can now highlight text that you want 
to encode or decode, then use the Edit -> Encode/Decode/Hash
menus to encode or decode the text to or from for eg:
- Base64
- ASCII Hex
- URL encoding