NAME¶
katoob - A Gtk2 light weight multilingual BiDi aware text editor.
katoob is a text editor for X, You can use it to create and edit text files.
Katoob support reading and saving text files in many encodings. As well as
importing / exporting to HTML character reference.
SYNOPSIS¶
katoob [
options]
files...
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the
katoob commands.
katoob is a light weight, multi lingual, BiDi aware text editor. It
supports opening and saving files in multiple encodings. The main support was
for Arabic language but more languages are currently supported.
OPTIONS¶
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options
starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.
- -h, --help
- Show summary of options.
- -v, --version
- Show version of program.
- -u, --usage
- Display brief usage message.
- -
- Read input from the standard input.
- files...
- Specifies the files to be opened. Multiple files are
supported but they should be separated by spaces, Reading from pipes is
also supported by using a dash "-". If no files specified,
Katoob'll start with an empty document.
FILES¶
- $HOME/.katoob/
- User's configuration files directory
- $HOME/.katoob/config
- Main configuration file
- $HOME/.katoob/recent
- Recent files list
- $PREFIX/share/katoob
- Global program directory
EXAMPLES¶
- Opening multiple files:
- katoob foo.txt bar.text zot
- Opening a file called foo and the output of cat:
- cat bar | katoob foo -
- Reading from a pipe:
- ls | katoob -
- Reading from multiple pipes:
- katoob - -
Here katoob'll try to read from the standard input 2 times. To close the
standard input you should press CTRL-D For each dash passed, Katoob'll reopen
the standard input and read from it.
BUGS¶
Something like
cat foo | katoob - - "should read cat output and then
wait for the user input and open each one in a separate document" is not
supported.
AUTHOR¶
katoob was written by Mohammed Sameer.
BUGS¶
Bugs should be reported at
http://bugzilla.arabeyes.org/ or the Arabeyes.org
developer mailing list developer@arabeyes.org.