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How to clean gedit's and other editor's find&replace history?

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I have started working on a new project using gedit on ubuntu 12.04. The problem i am facing now is that, all previously searched terms are still there when i click on the drop down arrow in search box of find&replace menu and i have to select from a long list of search terms.

How can i clean those histories of find&replace?
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answered 2 Years ago bathtusain · Accepted Answer

The search items are stored in gsettings/dconf. The ~/config/dconf/user file can't be edited so use dconf-editor. Go to org.gnome.gedit.state.history-entry & remove as desired or reset to default ['']

or from cli

gsettings set org.gnome.gedit.state.history-entry search-for-entry "['']"

for previous replace items

gsettings set org.gnome.gedit.state.history-entry replace-with-entry "['']"