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6 gedit - general-purpose text editor
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10 gedit [OPTION...] [FILE...] [+LINE[:COLUMN]]
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15 gedit is a general-purpose text editor.
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17 The first goal of gedit is to be easy to use, with a simple interface
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22 --encoding
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27 Display list of possible values for the encoding option and
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31 Create a new toplevel window in an existing instance of gedit.
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34 Create a new document in an existing instance of gedit.
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40 Open files and block the gedit process.
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42 --help Prints the command line options.
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47 FILE Specifies the file to open when gedit starts. If this is not
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72 Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
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