geresh/README

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.