NAME

Xed - The Text Editor

SYNOPSIS

xed [OPTIONS...] [FILES...]

DESCRIPTION

Xed is the official text editor of the X-APPS project, which aims to provide applications to the Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce desktops. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, Xed is a powerful general purpose text editor. It can be used to create and edit all sorts of text files.

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

This manual page briefly documents the xed command.

OPTIONS

filename(s)...: Specifies the file to open when xed starts. If this is not specified, xed will start a new, blank file with an "Unsaved Document" label. Multiple files can be loaded if they are separated by spaces. xed also supports handling of remote files.
--display=DISPLAY: X display to use.
--encoding: Set the character encoding to be used for opening the files listed on the command line.
--new-window: Create a new toplevel window in an existing instance of xed.
--new-document: Create a new document in an existing instance of xed, on the last Xed window that had focus.
+[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.
--list-encodings: Display list of possible values for the encoding option and exit
--version: Output version information and exit
-?, -h, --help: Print standard command line options.
-w, --wait: Open files and block the xed process.
--help-all: Print all command line options.

This program also accepts the standard GTK options.

EXAMPLES

xed --encoding WINDOWS-1252 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/README

Open the Linux Kernel README file from kernel.org's FTP server using Windows-1252 character encoding.

xed +156 http://www.some-website.com/

Open the main web page of some-website.com and jump to line 156.

xed --new-window ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_history

Open the current users .bashrc and .bash_history files in a new window.

BUGS

Should you encounter any bugs, they may be reported at:

http://github.com/linuxmint/xed/issues