GEDIT(1)							     GEDIT(1)



NAME
       gedit - simple text editor for GNOME

       The  gedit  application	is a simple text editor. You can use gedit to
       create and edit text files. You can use gedit  plugins  to  perform  a
       variety of tasks related to text-editing from within the gedit window.


SYNTAX
       gedit [--help] [--encoding] [--new-window]  [--new-document]  [--quit]
       [filename(s)...]

DESCRIPTION
       gedit is a text editor for the GNOME Desktop.


OPTIONS
       --help Prints the command line options.

       --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  gedit.

       --new-document
	      Create a new document in an existing instance of gedit.

       --quit Quit an existing instance of gedit.

       filename(s)...
	      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.
	      gedit also supports handling of remote files.  For example, you
	      can   pass   the	 location   of	 a  webpage  to	 gedit,	 like
	      "http://www.gnome.org", or load a file from a FTP server,	 like
	      "ftp://ftp.gnome.org/robots.txt".

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

       ls -l | gedit

BUGS
       If     you     find     a     bug,     please	 report	    it	   at
       http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gedit.


AUTHORS
       Paolo Maggi (maggi@athena.polito.it)

       James Willcox (jwillcox@cs.indiana.edu)

       Federico Mena Quintero (federico@ximian.com)

       Chema Celorio (chema@celorio.com)




				 16 Jul 2004			     GEDIT(1)

UNIX/Linux commands referenced on this page:

1. file
2. ls
3. find