xed Command Examples

Edit files in Cinnamon desktop environment. More information: https://github.com/linuxmint/xed.

• 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}}