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)