NAME
   kephra - crossplatform, GUI-Texteditor designed along Perl's Paradigms

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

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

 Philosophy

   Main Goals

   A visually harmonic and beautiful, sparing and elegantly programed Editor,
   that helpes you with all your daily tasks. It should be also able to operate
   in the way you prefer and be not afraid to try new things.

   In Depth
   I know, I know, there are plenty text editors out there, even some really
   mighty IDE, but still no perfect solution for many programmers. So lets
   learn from Perl 5 and 6 what it takes to build a tool thats powerful and fun
   to play with for hours and months.

   * make a low entry barrier (usable like notepad)
   * copy what people like and are used to and whats not inherently broken
   * give choices (TimTowtdi)
     * (e.g. deliver vi and emacs input style)
     * usable with menu, contextmenu, bars, mouse combo, key combos, commands ...
     * configure via dialog and yaml/conf files ...
   * highly configurable / adaptable to personal preferences
   * beauty / good integration on GUI, code and config level
   * solve things with minimal effort (no bloat / minimal dependencies)
   * still everything extendable by easy to write plugins

   I believe strongly that there is much more possible with GUI editors
   and text editors in general than we are used today. So I try to weave
   fresh ideas wherever I can and design Kephra in a way, that every
   programmer can alter and extend it easily. That can speed up progress
   or at least makes Kephra more comfortable for you.

   That is the plan, but we are currently not nearly that far.

 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 (on braces or blockwise),
   goto last edit or 10 doc spanning Bookmarks as well as find in files.

   Advanced undo, line editing (edit functions that take the current line as
   input), move selected text by mouse or keyboard. Formating funtions like
   blockformat, align blocks, indenting, commenting ...

   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.

   Every menu and toolbar is evaluated from a simple yaml file, so you can
   change it easily by opening this files from the config menu.


ROADMAP

 Overview

   Stable Release 0.4

   This release was about getting the editor liquid or highly configurable.
   Its also about improvements in the user interface and of course the little
   things we missed. It also contains interpreter output panel and a notepad.

   Stable Release 0.5

   This release is about getting Kephra into the world out there and adding
   feature that are most needed and removing most hindering barriers.

   Stable Release 0.6

   This release will be about extending Kephra internal extentions and Plugins.

 This Cycle

   Testing 0.4.1 - code folding

   Testing 0.4.2 - folding and GUI refined, movable tabs, 2 more tools, doc data

   Testing 0.4.3 - utf, marker, folding finished, 3 more tools, help links

   Testing 0.4.4 - new mouse control, 2 more tools, docs updated

   Testing 0.4.5 - more encodings, config dialog

   Stable 0.5 - about dialog

 Future

   command line vor vi like usage
   tree lib extention: snippet lib and toolbox in one
   file browser
   Plugin API

Coding support like L<Perl::Tidy>, outlining, help integration, debugger
autocompletition and so on will be long time goals. Lets see where they fit in.


SUPPORT
   OS: Linux, Mac and Win32 (Basically same es the module named Wx.)

   Perl: >= 5.6             (we use our :) )


AUTHORS
   * Herbert Breunung <[email protected]> (main author)

   * Jens Neuwerk (author of icons, GUI advisor)

   * Andreas Kaschner (linux and mac ports)

   * Adam Kennedy <[email protected]> (cpanification)

   * Renee Bäcker E<lt>[email protected]<gt> (color picker)

   * many more since we study other editors a lot and also the padre sources

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

   Copyright 2004 - 2010 Herbert Breunung. All rights reserved.

   This program is free software, licensed under the GNU GPL as you can see in
   the LICENSE file in same directory or under http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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