NAME

kephra - crossplatform, CPAN-installable GUI-Texteditor along Perl's Paradigms

SYNOPSIS

> kephra [<files>]   # start with certain files open
    

DESCRIPTION

This module installs a complete editor application with all its configs and documentation for your programming, web and text authoring.

Philosophy

I know, i know, there are plenty text editors out there, even some really mighty IDE, but this is my attempt to make it better. And by that i don't meant to make a better vi or emacs nor kommodo, but to carry over to text editing, what makes perl a great language: A low entry barrier, a high end and to have a choice between different styles, like the vi command line input style, the emacs keyboard combinations style and the GUI style. We're currently not that far but already achieved a good portion.

The other thing is that CPAN, perl's great toolbox has already many modules, that cover most of the feature, a good IDE needs today. Why don't we use it for our own programming?

Features

Beside all the basic stuff that would you expect from a notepad, we have file sessions, simple templates, recent closed files, and file functions applied to all files, where it makes sense.

We have also a pile of advanced text navigation, undo, editing, line editing, and formating funtions like, brace and block navigation, goto last edit, find in files, fast undo, blockformat and so on, and of cource doc spanning bookmarks.

Documents have several properties like syntax styling, auto indention, tab width, tab use, write protection.

View options contain switches for any GUI element and marker for: current line, end of line bytes, right margin, indetion guides, bracehiglighting, line wrap and font.

TO DO

- Complete CPANification

- Lots and lots of other things

SUPPORT

Bugs should be reported via the CPAN bug tracker at

http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Kephra

For other issues, contact the author.

AUTHORS

* Herbert Breunung <lichtkind@cpan.org> (main author)

* Jens Neuwerk <jenne@gmxpro.net> (author of icons, GUI advisor)

* Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org> (cpanification)

COPYRIGHT

This Copyright applies only to the "Kephra" Perl software distribution, not the icons bundled within.

Copyright 2004 - 2008 Herbert Breunung. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU GPL.

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.