debian man page for katoob

KATOOB(1)						      General Commands Manual							 KATOOB(1)

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 encod-
       ings. 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  sup-
       port 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.

								   June 22, 2003							 KATOOB(1)