gedit

Text editor of the GNOME Desktop project. More information: https://help.gnome.org/users/gedit/stable/.

Open a text file:
gedit {{path/to/file}}
Open multiple text files:
gedit {{file1 file2 ...}}
Open a text file with a specific encoding:
gedit --encoding={{UTF-8}} {{path/to/file}}
Display a list of supported encodings:
gedit --list-encodings

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