gedit(1)							   User Commands							  gedit(1)

NAME

       gnome-text-editor, gedit - Text Editor for the GNOME desktop.

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-text-editor | gedit [--encoding=encoding] [--new-document] [--new-window] [+[num]] [gnome-std-options] [filename]

DESCRIPTION

       gedit or gnome-text-editor 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. Multiple documents can be edited at the same time.  Each document resides in a specific tabbed section of the application  win-
       dow.

       gedit features a flexible plugin system which can be used to dynamically add new advanced features to gedit itself.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --encoding=encoding     Set the character encoding to be used to open the files listed on the command line.

       --new-document	       Create a new top-level document or tabbed section in an existing instance of gedit.

       --new-window	       Create a new top-level window in an existing instance of gedit.

       +[num]		       For the first file, go to the line specified by num (do not insert a space between the "+" sign and the number). If
			       num is missing, go to the last line.

       gnome-std-options       Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications.  See gnome-std-options(5) for more information.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       filename 	       The name of the image file to edit.

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION

       The gedit application accepts pipes, so you can specify a pipe after another command, to load the output of the	command  into  gedit.  For
       example:

       example% ls -l | gedit

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: To Edit an ASCII File Named document.txt

       example% gedit document.txt

       Example 2: To Add a New Tab That Contains an ASCII File Named book.txt

       example% gedit --new-document book.txt

       Example 3: To Add a New Top-Level Window That Contains an ASCII File Named testfile.txt

       example% gedit --new-window testfile.txt

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully.

       >0	An error occurred.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gedit		       The executable file for the gnome-text-editor application.

       /usr/bin/gnome-text-editor      A symbolic link to the gedit executable file.

       /usr/lib/gedit/plugins	       Location of gedit plugins.

       /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gedit   Location of developer documentation for writing a gedit plugin.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-text-editor	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       libgtksourceview-1.0(3), attributes(5), gnome-std-options(5)

       Online Help gedit manual.

NOTES

       This man page was written by the following people: Paolo Maggi, Paolo Borelli, Chema Celorio, James Willcox, Federico Mena Quintero.

       Updated by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2004, 2006.

SunOS 5.11							    31 Aug 2004 							  gedit(1)