xed - Man Page

The Text Editor

Examples (TL;DR)

Start the editor: xed
Open specific files: xed path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...
Open files using a specific encoding: xed --encoding WINDOWS-1252 path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...
Print all supported encodings: xed --list-encodings
Open a file and go to a specific line: xed +10 path/to/file

Xed is the official text editor of the X-APPS project, which aims to provide applications to the Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce desktops. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, Xed is a powerful general purpose text editor. It can be used to create and edit all sorts of text files.

Xed features a flexible plugin system which can be used to dynamically add new advanced features to Xed itself.

This manual page briefly documents the xed command.

Options

filename(s)...: Specifies the file to open when xed starts. If this is not specified, xed will start a new, blank file with an "Unsaved Document" label. Multiple files can be loaded if they are separated by spaces. xed 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 xed.
--new-document: Create a new document in an existing instance of xed, on the last Xed 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.
-w, --wait: Open files and block the xed process.
--help-all: Print all command line options.