---
name: "medit"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "medit"
version: "1.2.0-3"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/medit"
---

# medit(1)

text editor

## NAME

medit - text editor

## SYNOPSIS

**medit** \[*OPTION*\]... \[*FILES*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**medit** is a text editor.

## OPTIONS

- **-n**, **--new-app**

  run new instance of **medit**. By default **medit** opens *FILES* (or creates a new document if none are given) in an existing instance of application

- **-s**, **--use-session**\[=*yes\|no*\]

  load and save session. By default **medit** does it when **-n** is not used. If this option is not given on command line then medit uses the corresponding preferences setting.

- **--pid** *PID*

  use existing instance with process id *PID*.

- **--app-name** *NAME*

  use instance name *NAME*. If an instance with this name is already running, then it will send files given on the command line to that instance and exit.

- **-e**, **--encoding** *ENCODING*

  use provided character encoding to open the file

- **-l**, **--line** *LINE*

  open file and position cursor on line *LINE*. Alternatively line number may be specified with filename, e.g. medit foo.txt:12

- **-r**, **--reload**

  automatically reload opened file if it was modified on disk by another program.

- **-w**, **--new-window**

  open file in a new window.

- **-t**, **--new-tab**

  open file in a new tab.

- **--log-file** *FILE*

  write debug output into *FILE*. This option is only useful on Windows.

- **--log-window**

  show debug output in a log window. This option is only useful on Windows.

- **--debug** *DOMAINS*

  enable debug output for *DOMAINS* (if **medit** was compiled with --enable-debug option).

- **--geometry** *WIDTHxHEIGHT*

  - **--geometry** *WIDTHxHEIGHT+X+Y*

  default window size and position.

- **-h**, **--help**

  show summary of options.

- **-v**, **--version**

  show program version.

- *FILES*

  list of files to open. Filenames may include line numbers after colon, e.g. /tmp/file.txt:200. Trailing colon is ignored.

## ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

- MEDIT\_PID

  if set, it is used as --pid argument. When medit spawns a process (e.g. a DVI viewer) it sets MEDIT\_PID to its own process id, so the child process may in turn simply use 'medit filename' to open a file (e.g. for inverse DVI search).

## CONTACT

http://mooedit.sourceforge.net/contact.html

## AUTHOR

Written and maintained by Yevgen Muntyan \<emuntyan@users.sourceforge.net\>