GEDIT

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Updated: 08 Oct 2000
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NAME

gedit - simple text editor for Gnome

SYNTAX

gedit [--help] [--version] [--debug[-section]] [filename(s)...]

DESCRIPTION

gedit is a text editor for the Gnome Desktop.

OPTIONS

--help: Prints the command line options.
--version: Prints the version of gedit
--debug[-section]: Runs gedit in debug mode. In debug mode all the functions that are beeing called dump to the console the function names. Specific sections for debugging can be specified, the sections are : window, commands, document, file, plugins, prefs, print, search, undo, view and recent. Run gedit --help or more information.
--filename: Specifies the file to open when gedit starts - if this is not specified, gedit will load a blank file with an Untitled label. Multiple files can be loaded if they are separated by spaces.

PIPES

Gedit acepts pipes, so it can be run after another command to load the ouptup into gedit. For example :

ls -l | gedit

BUGS

See the KNOWNBUGS file for a list of the bugs we know about but haven't bothered to fix yet, if you find a bug that isn't listed in that file, email us.

AUTHORS

Chema Celorio (chema@celorio.com)

Jason Leach (leach@wam.umd.edu)
Alex Roberts (bse@dial.pipex.com)
Evan Lawrence (evan@worldpath.net)

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