Though KWrite may most often be started from the TDE 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 KWrite open (or create) that file immediately upon startup. This option might look something like the following:
%
kwrite
/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:
%
kwrite
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/Welcome.msg
The following command line help options are available
kwrite
--help
This lists the most basic options available at the command line.
kwrite
--help-qt
This lists the options available for changing the way KWrite interacts with Qt™.
kwrite
--help-kde
This lists the options available for changing the way KWrite interacts with TDE.
kwrite
--help-all
This lists all of the command line options.
kwrite
--author
Lists KWrite's authors in the terminal window
kwrite
--version
Lists version information for Qt™, TDE, and KWrite. Also
available through kwrite
-v
kwrite
--stdin
Causes KWrite to read the document content from STDIN. This
is similar to the common option -
used in many command line
programs, and allows you to pipe command output into KWrite.
kwrite
--encoding
encoding
URL
Causes KWrite to use the specified encoding for the document.
kwrite
--line
line
URL
Navigate to the specified line after opening the document.
kwrite
--column
column
URL
Navigate to the specified column after opening the document.
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