gEdit 0.5.4
Alex Roberts and Evan Lawrence, 1998, 1999

INTRODUCTION
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Thank you for your interest in gEdit, a text editor for X using
the GTK+ and GNOME libraries. It is being developed
by Alex Roberts, Evan Lawrence and Chris Lahey (among others).

This version is quite a neat text editor, it contains the following
features:
	* Opening/Saving/Creating of files;
	* File Revert;
	* Cut/Copy/Paste and Select All text;
	* Complete integration with the GNOME Environment, including GnomeMDI;
	* Search and Replace;
	* A complete preferences interface;
	* Dynamically loading fonts;
	* Splitscreen Mode;
	* Printing support; 
	* Configurable Plugins system;
	* Configurable window sizing;
	* Dockable window items.

FEEDBACK
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This is the latest release of the unstable 0.5 series of gEdit, it is as stable
as possible for a development version and  there are certainly still bugs in
it - if you find one, please contact me or the mailing list, mentioned below or
contact me on IRC - irc.mint.net in the #gedit channel.

PLUGINS
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For information on the Plugins included with gEdit, plase read the
README.plugins file...

To find out how to write your own Plugins, please read
the: "plugins/plugin_howto" file...

INSTALL
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Please see the file INSTALL for instructions on installation.

This version use features only available in GTK+-1.2.x and GNOME 1.0.x - it will
no longer work without GNOME. The latest release of GTK+-1.2.x from 
http://www.gtk.org is recommend, or the latest development version from the 
Gnome CVS tree; The latest release of GNOME is also recommended, older versions
may provoke unforseen bugs.

MAILING-LIST
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If you are interested in gEdit, either using it, or developing it, please join the gEdit
mailing list:
	Send an Email to majordomo@gedit.pn.org, containing the line subscribe gedit-list  
	To send a message to the list, send mail to gedit-list@gedit.pn.org


Thank you for your interest in gEdit, we hope you enjoy using it.
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Alex Roberts - BSE - 	Evan Lawrence - Ice -
bse@gedit.pn.org    	evan@worldpath.net
http://gedit.pn.org
