gnome-text-editor - text editor for the GNOME Desktop
gedit [OPTION...] [FILE...] [+LINE[:COLUMN]] gedit [OPTION...] -
GEDIT(1) General Commands Manual GEDIT(1)
NAME
gedit - text editor for the GNOME Desktop
SYNOPSIS
gedit [OPTION...] [FILE...] [+LINE[:COLUMN]]
gedit [OPTION...] -
DESCRIPTION
gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment.
While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general
purpose text editor. It can be used to create and edit all kinds of
text files.
gedit features a flexible plugin system which can be used to dynami-
cally add new advanced features to gedit itself.
OPTIONS
--encoding
Set the character encoding to be used for opening the files
listed on the command line.
-g, --geometry=GEOMETRY
Set the X geometry window size (WIDTHxHEIGHT+X+Y).
--list-encodings
Display list of possible values for the encoding option and
exit.
--new-window
Create a new toplevel window in an existing instance of gedit.
--new-document
Create a new document in an existing instance of gedit.
-s, --standalone
Run gedit in standalone mode.
-w, --wait
Open files and block the gedit process.
--help Prints the command line options.
--version
Output version information and exit.
FILE Specifies the file to open when gedit starts. If this is not
specified, gedit will load a blank file with an "Unsaved Docu-
ment" label. Multiple files can be loaded if they are separated
by spaces. gedit also supports handling of remote files. For
example, you can pass the location of a webpage to gedit , like
"http://www.gnome.org", or load a file from a FTP server, like
"ftp://ftp.gnome.org/robots.txt".
- gedit will read from stdin
+LINE For the first file, go to the line specified by LINE (do not
insert a space between the "+" sign and the number). If LINE is
missing, go to the last line.
COLUMN For the first file, go to the column specified by COLUMN. If
COLUMN is missing, go to the first column.
BUGS
If you find a bug, please report it at the GNOME bug tracker. See
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit/ReportingBugs.
AUTHORS
Paolo Maggi (paolo@gnome.org)
Paolo Borelli (pborelli@katamail.com)
Steve Frcinaux (code@istique.net)
Jesse van den Kieboom (jessevdk@gnome.org)
Ignacio Casal Quinteiro <icq@gnome.org>
James Willcox (jwillcox@gnome.org)
Federico Mena Quintero (federico@novell.com)
Chema Celorio
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+-----------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+-----------------------+
|Availability | editor/gedit |
+---------------+-----------------------+
|Stability | Pass-through volatile |
+---------------+-----------------------+
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from https://down-
load.gnome.org/sources/gedit/3.18/gedit-3.18.2.tar.xz
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit.
17 May 2010 GEDIT(1)