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  • Thanks for your answer, but this won't work for me. The same errors appear. What do the separate '--' stand for? Perhaps the error lies in some settings of my bash environment... Commented Sep 5, 2013 at 9:49
  • Nedit is installed. I wrote a similar function that just opens nedit with the specified file (just to have the '&'), and this works pretty well. But when opening a 500MB text file and nedit saves after every 80 or so strokes, editing can become very annoying. A workaround would be to increase the amount of strokes after nedit autosaves, but this would be a global setting. Commented Sep 5, 2013 at 10:17
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    @SoumVhon - This is sounding more like an XY Problem. What is your real issue, nedit slows down when -autosave is enabled after some period of time? Commented Sep 5, 2013 at 10:41
  • I see what you try pointing to. But there is no problem with nedit's autosave capability nor it's speed (which is, when it comes to saving, only limitated by network and/or hard drive speed), I just want to create a program shortcut/alias that uses the -noautosave parameter to disable autosave completely (enabled by default). Only when there is now way of creating such a shortcut (and that seems to be the case on my system, even when I try your suggested solution), I either have to alter nedits configuration to get the behavior I am looking for, or just do it manually every time I need it. Commented Sep 5, 2013 at 12:02
  • Oh, just in case, I don't want to switch off autosave completely, just sometimes when I have to handle big files. If there is a smarter/easier way to achieve this goal, I would be happy to hear. Commented Sep 5, 2013 at 12:11