PLUMA

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 29 January 2014
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NAME

Pluma - The MATE Text Editor

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:

http://github.com/mate-desktop/pluma/issues

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)