Though KEdit may most often be started from the KDE program menu, or a desktop icon, it can also be opened at the command line prompt of a terminal window. There are a few useful options that are available when doing this.
By specifying the path and name of a particular file the user can have KEdit open (or create) that file immediately upon startup.This option might look something like the following:
%
kedit
/home/myhome/docs/myfile.txt
The above-mentioned method could even be used to open files on the internet (if the user has an active connection at the time.) An example of this might look like the following:
%
kedit
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/Welcome.msg
The following command line help options are available
--help
This lists the most basic options available at the command line.
--help-qt
This lists the options available for changing the way KEdit interacts with Qt™.
--help-kde
This lists the options available for changing the way KEdit interacts with KDE.
--help-all
This lists all of the command line options.
--author
Lists KEdit's authors in the terminal window
--version
Lists version information for Qt™, KDE, and KEdit. Also
available through kedit -V
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