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.

                                                  June 22, 2003                                        KATOOB(1)