pluma - Man Page
The MATE Text Editor
Examples (TL;DR)
- Start the editor:
pluma
- Open specific documents:
pluma path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...
- Open documents using a specific encoding:
pluma --encoding WINDOWS-1252 path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...
- Print all supported encodings:
pluma --list-encodings
- Open document and go to a specific line:
pluma +10 path/to/file
Synopsis
pluma [Options...] [FILES...]
Description
Pluma is the official text editor of the MATE desktop environment. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, Pluma is a powerful general purpose text editor. It can be used to create and edit all sorts of text files.
Pluma features a flexible plugin system which can be used to dynamically add new advanced features to Pluma itself.
This manual page briefly documents the pluma command.
Options
- filename(s)...
Specifies the file to open when pluma starts. If this is not specified, pluma will start a new, blank file with an "Unsaved Document" label. Multiple files can be loaded if they are separated by spaces. pluma 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 pluma.
- --new-document
Create a new document in an existing instance of pluma, on the last Pluma 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.
- --help-all
Print all command line options.
This program also accepts the standard GTK options.
Examples
pluma --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.
pluma +156 http://mate-desktop.org/
Open the main web page of mate-desktop.org and jump to line 156.
pluma --new-window ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_history
Open the current users .bashrc and .bash_history files in a new Pluma window.
Bugs
Should you encounter any bugs, they may be reported at
Notes
This version of the Pluma Manual Page was written with Pluma. =)
Authors
This Man Page has been updated/re-written for the MATE Desktop Environment by
Adam Erdman <hekel@archlinux.info> (2014)
History
Some portions of this manual were originally written by Gedit's previous developers, to accompany it in the GNOME Desktop Environment by
Paolo Maggi <paolo@gnome.org> Paolo Borelli <pborelli@katamail.com> James Willcox <jwillcox@gnome.org> Federico Mena Quintero <federico@novell.com> Chema Celorio (2000-2010)