Pluma (1) Linux Manual Page

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 [at] 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 [at] gnome.org>

Paolo Borelli <pborelli [at] katamail.com>

James Willcox <jwillcox [at] gnome.org>

Federico Mena Quintero <federico [at] novell.com>

Chema Celorio

(2000-2010)

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