Please have a look at the file "RELEASE_NOTES" for any known issues.

Katoob README
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 Katoob Copyright (c) 2002 Arabeyes, 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.
 See the file NEWS for News.
 For more details about this version changes have a look at the ChangeLog.
 Take your time browsing the THANKS file and find the kind ppl. who helped me.


What is it?   
~~~~~~~~~~~
 Katoob is a small text editor for UNIX operating systems, Based on the 
 GTK+ library 2.0 
 It should run on most BSD and POSIX compliant operating systems.


Requirements:
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 * See the "INSTALL" file.

 Katoob is being developed on Linux Mandrake but it should work on any 
 Linux distro.
 From version 20030102 it's developed on GNU/Debian Linux.


Download:
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 You can always download the latest version either from Arabeyes.
 http://www.arabeyes.org

 Debian stable can always get the latest stable version from my personal apt 
 repository:
	deb http://bignachos.com/~uniball/ debian/
	deb-src http://bignachos.com/~uniball/ debian/

 # apt-get update && apt-get install katoob


CVS:
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 For the latest bleeding edge version use Arabeyes CVS.
 Use anoncvs for the password.

 $ export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.arabeyes.org:/home/arabeyes/cvs
 $ cvs login
 $ cvs co projects/katoob
 $ cd projects/katoob && ./autogen.sh

 You'll need: the autotools, libtoolize, intltoolize, gettextize and flex.


Installation:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 See the file INSTALL for details.


Features:
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* 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.

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