<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
      xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
      type="topic" style="task"
      id="gedit-open-files">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="gedit-files-basic" group="second"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="gedit-open-on-server"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="gedit-close-file"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="gedit-open-recent"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="gedit-quickstart"/>
    <desc>Open files to start working on them.</desc>
    <revision pkgversion="3.8" date="2013-03-07" status="final"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.12" date="2014-02-12" status="review"/>

    <credit type="author">
      <name>Jim Campbell</name>
      <email>jcampbell@gnome.org</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Shobha Tyagi</name>
      <email its:translate="no">tyagishobha@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
  </info>

  <title>Open a file or set of files</title>

  <p>To open a file in <app>gedit</app>, click the <gui>Open</gui> button, or
  press <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>O</key></keyseq>.</p>
  <p>This will cause the <gui>Open</gui> dialog to appear. Use your mouse
  or keyboard to select the file that you wish to open, and then click
  <gui>Open</gui>. The file that you've selected will open in a new tab.</p>
  <p>To close the <gui>Open</gui> dialog without opening a file, click
  <gui>Cancel</gui>.</p>

  <note style="tip"><p>You can use the <key>Ctrl</key> and <key>Shift</key>
  keys to open more than one file at a time. If you hold down the
  <key>Ctrl</key> key while you select multiple files, clicking <gui>Open</gui>
  will open each of the files that you have selected.</p>

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  <p>Holding down the <key>Shift</key> while you select multiple files will
  open the first file that you select, the last file that you select, and all
  of the files in between.</p></note>

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</page>
