debian man page for medit

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NAME
       medit - text editor

SYNOPSIS
       medit [OPTION]... [FILES]

DESCRIPTION
       medit is a text editor.

OPTIONS
       -n, --new-app
	      run  new	instance  of  medit. By default medit opens FILES (or creates a new document if none are given) in an existing instance of
	      application

       -s, --use-session[=yes|no]
	      load and save session. By default medit does it when -n is not used.  If this option is not given on command line  then  medit  uses
	      the corresponding preferences setting.

       --pid PID
	      use existing instance with process id PID.

       --app-name NAME
	      use  instance name NAME. If an instance with this name is already running, then it will send files given on the command line to that
	      instance and exit.

       -e, --encoding ENCODING
	      use provided character encoding to open the file

       -l, --line LINE
	      open file and position cursor on line LINE. Alternatively line number may be specified with filename, e.g.  medit foo.txt:12

       -r, --reload
	      automatically reload opened file if it was modified on disk by another program.

       -w, --new-window
	      open file in a new window.

       -t, --new-tab
	      open file in a new tab.

       --log-file FILE
	      write debug output into FILE. This option is only useful on Windows.

       --log-window
	      show debug output in a log window. This option is only useful on Windows.

       --debug DOMAINS
	      enable debug output for DOMAINS (if medit was compiled with --enable-debug option).

       --geometry WIDTHxHEIGHT

       --geometry WIDTHxHEIGHT+X+Y
	      default window size and position.

       -h, --help
	      show summary of options.

       -v, --version
	      show program version.

       FILES  list of files to open. Filenames may include line numbers after colon, e.g. /tmp/file.txt:200. Trailing colon is ignored.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       MEDIT_PID
	      if set, it is used as --pid argument. When medit spawns a process (e.g. a DVI viewer) it sets MEDIT_PID to its own  process  id,	so
	      the child process may in turn simply use 'medit filename' to open a file (e.g. for inverse DVI search).

CONTACT
       http://mooedit.sourceforge.net/contact.html

AUTHOR
       Written and maintained by Yevgen Muntyan <emuntyan@users.sourceforge.net>

								  September 2010							  MEDIT(1)