Comment 7 for bug 862627

It still doesn't work for me. I get:

(gedit:6088): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accel_label_set_accel_closure: assertion `gtk_accel_group_from_accel_closure (accel_closure) != NULL' failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/snippets/__init__.py", line 19, in <module>
    from windowactivatable import WindowActivatable
  File "/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/snippets/windowactivatable.py", line 29, in <module>
    class Activate(Gedit.Message):
  File "/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/snippets/windowactivatable.py", line 31, in Activate
    iter = GObject.property(type=Gtk.TextIter)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/_gobject/propertyhelper.py", line 111, in __init__
    self.type = self._type_from_python(type)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/_gobject/propertyhelper.py", line 202, in _type_from_python
    raise TypeError("Unsupported type: %r" % (type_,))
TypeError: Unsupported type: <class 'gi.overrides.Gtk.TextIter'>

(gedit:6088): libpeas-WARNING **: Error loading plugin 'snippets'