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).