Katoob README ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Katoob Copyright (c) 2002-2006 Mohammed Sameer. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. See the file COPYING for details. What is it? ~~~~~~~~~~~ Katoob is a light weight multilingual BiDi aware text editor It support opening and saving files in multiple encodings. The main support is some for Arabic language specific features. It should run on most BSD and POSIX compliant operating systems. Requirements: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * See the "INSTALL" file. Katoob is being developed on Debian GNU/Linux but it should work on any GNU/Linux distro. Download: ~~~~~~~~~ * Building from source: You can always download the latest version from ftp://foolab.org/pub/software/katoob * Debian: apt-get install katoob * Mandriva: Add the contrib repository then urpmi katoob CVS: ~~~~ For the latest bleeding edge version: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@home.foolab.org:/var/lib/cvs login (Press enter when prompted for the password) cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@home.foolab.org:/var/lib/cvs co projects/katoob cd projects/katoob && ./autogen.sh You'll need: * autoconf * automake * intltool Installation: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ See the file INSTALL for details. Features: ~~~~~~~~~ * Multiple codepage support "not just UTF-8" * The ability to Open/Save files in multiple encodings * Search/Replace/Replace all * Configurable Undo/Redo * Read from stdin via pipe "cat file | katoob -" * Open multiple files from the command line * An MDI Interface * Line wrapping * The ability to select the toolbar style * Recent files Menu * An encodings menu to change the encoding on the fly * The statusbar has an indicator weather the file is modified or NOT * Read only files Can't be modified * Display the used encoding in the statusbar * GNOME human interface guidlines compliant interface * GNOME menu entry. * An infrastructure to allow easy addition of emulator files. * All the configured keyboard layouts are available from the layout switcher. * An emulator to be able to write in your language even if you don't configure a keyboard layout. * Syntax highlighting. * Spell checking on the fly or when required. * Per document settings on the fly. * An extended toolbar offering some common functions. EOF
