Preferences files
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## Preferences files

medit preferences are stored in `$HOME/.local/share/medit/prefs.xml` file. It is an XML file which may be edited to set preferences which have not found their place in the Preferences dialog.

### Note

medit reads the preferences file on startup and writes it whenever OK or Apply button is clicked in the Preferences dialog. Therefore, if you modify the preferences file, your changes may be overwritten, and they not take effect until you restart medit.

The following "hidden" settings are available:

`Editor/window_title`

  Format of the window title. It is a string which may contain format sequences, which are percent sign followed by a character:

  `%a` : | application name
  `%b` : | current document basename
  `%f` : | full path of the current document
  `%u` : | URI of the current document
  `%s` : | the status of the current document, e.g. "`[modified]`". It is prefixed with a space, so that "`%b%s`" produces a nice string
  `%%` : | the percent character

  Default value is "`%a - %f%s`" which produces something like "`medit - /home/user/file [modified]`".

`Editor/window_title_no_doc`

  same as `Editor/window_title`, used when no document is open. Default value is "`%a`".

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