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@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +Geresh is a simple multi-lingual text editor for text terminals. + +Installation instructions are detailed in the INSTALL file. + +Main features: + +* Unicode support + +* Works with UTF-8 terminals (and with non-UTF-8 terminals) + +* Wide-characters and combining-characters support + +* BiDi support (using the FriBiDi library) + +* Editing of BiDi formatting codes + +* An intelligent algorithm for determining paragraphs direction. + +* Arabic shaping, Lam-Alif ligatures, Harakat. + +* Alternative display of Hebrew points and maqaf; Hebrew keyboard emulation. + +* Can be used as a filter to output a visual representation of the logical + input (similar to "bidiv"). + +* Recognizes (and displays) different line-ends: Unix (LF), Mac (CR), + Dos/Windows (CR+LF), Unicode PS, Unicode LS. + +* Speller support (supports the ispell-a protocol) + +* Undo / redo + +* Copy / cut / paste + +* Pipes + +* Several wrap policies + auto-justify + +* Optional iconv support + +* Auto-detects UTF-8/16/32 encoded files. + +* Can run in UTF-8 or 8-bit locales. Can also run on systems that have + neither UTF-8 nor ISO-8859-8 locales. + +* Syntax highlighting for HTML, Email, *text* and _text_ + +* Help system: a comprehensive User Manual (in Hebrew) and a "Describe Key" + function (a la emacs). + +* Pull-down menu, scrollbar + +* Themes (aka "color schemes") + +* And more! + +Installation instructions are detailed in the INSTALL file. + |