GEDIT(1)

💖 GEDIT(1) — like, the manual page for gedit 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, grab a strawberry 🍓, because we're about to get into the General Commands Manual for gedit, and honestly? she's iconic. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

gedit — a general-purpose text editor 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gedit [OPTION...] [FILE...] [+LINE[:COLUMN]]
gedit [OPTION...] -

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So gedit is an easy-to-use, general-purpose text editor. she's been around since 1998 — literally the beginnings of the GNOME project — and she comes with really good integration with that desktop environment. main character energy from day one, fr fr 👑

You can use her to write simple notes and documents, OR you can turn on the more advanced features that are actually super useful for software development. lowkey both. highkey both. 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --encoding — sets the character encoding that gets used for opening the files you listed on the command line.
• --list-encodings — shows you the list of possible values for the --encoding option, then dips out (exits).
• --new-window — makes a brand new toplevel window inside an existing instance of gedit. not a new process, bestie, a new window.
• --new-document — creates a new document inside an existing instance of gedit.
• -s, --standalone — runs gedit in standalone mode.
• -w, --wait — opens the files and blocks the gedit process. so it just… waits there. patiently. 🧚
• --help — prints the command line options. the classic.
• --version — outputs version info and exits.
• FILE — specifies the file to open when gedit starts. If you don't specify one, gedit will load a blank file labelled "Unsaved Document". You can load multiple files if they're separated by spaces. gedit also handles remote files — for example you can pass the location of a webpage, like "http://www.gnome.org", or load a file from an FTP server, like "ftp://ftp.gnome.org/robots.txt". obsessed with the range honestly 🌈
• - — 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.

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💀 BUGS 💀

If you find a bug, please report it at the GNOME bug tracker. See:

https://gedit-text-editor.org/reporting-bugs.html

not me asking you to actually file the bug instead of just complaining in the group chat 😭 they wanna know!!

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Sébastien Wilmet
• Paolo Borelli
• Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
• Jesse van den Kieboom
• Paolo Maggi
• and many others.

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this edition was dated 22 December 2024, and it's part of the General Commands Manual — so yeah, GEDIT(1), periodt. go write something cute in her 🌸✨