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6 Pluma - The MATE Text Editor
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9 pluma [OPTIONS...] [FILES...]
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12 Pluma is the official text editor of the MATE desktop environment.
13 While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, Pluma is a powerful general
14 purpose text editor. It can be used to create and edit all sorts of
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17 Pluma features a flexible plugin system which can be used to dynami‐
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20 This manual page briefly documents the pluma command.
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25 Specifies the file to open when pluma starts. If this is not
26 specified, pluma will start a new, blank file with an "Unsaved
27 Document" label. Multiple files can be loaded if they are sepa‐
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31 X display to use.
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33 --encoding
34 Set the character encoding to be used for opening the files
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37 --new-window
38 Create a new toplevel window in an existing instance of pluma.
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40 --new-document
41 Create a new document in an existing instance of pluma, on the
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44 +[num] For the first file, go to the line specified by "num" (do not
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48 --list-encodings
49 Display list of possible values for the encoding option and exit
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51 --version
52 Output version information and exit
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54 -?, -h, --help
55 Print standard command line options.
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58 Print all command line options.
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66 Open the Linux Kernel README file from kernel.org's FTP server
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69 pluma +156 http://mate-desktop.org/
70 Open the main web page of mate-desktop.org and jump to line 156.
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72 pluma --new-window ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_history
73 Open the current users .bashrc and .bash_history files in a new
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82 This version of the Pluma Manual Page was written with Pluma. =)
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85 This Man Page has been updated/re-written for the MATE Desktop Environment
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87 Adam Erdman <hekel@archlinux.info> (2014)
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90 Some portions of this manual were originally written by Gedit's previous
91 developers, to accompany it in the GNOME Desktop Environment by:
92 Paolo Maggi <paolo@gnome.org>
93 Paolo Borelli <pborelli@katamail.com>
94 James Willcox <jwillcox@gnome.org>
95 Federico Mena Quintero <federico@novell.com>
96 Chema Celorio
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100 Pluma documentation can be found from the "Help" menu, or by pressing the
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