1 Zen - A GNOME Text Editor
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4 Zen is a simple but powerful programmers text editor for the GNOME environment.
5 It uses the GtkSourceView source code editing widget, and provides a streamlined
6 interface that excels at multi-document editing. Programmers that prefer a
7 well-designed GUI text editor that lets them focus on their work may
8 appreciate Zen's editing environment.
10 Some of Zen's advanced features include:
12 - Multi-language syntax highlighting with configurable tabbing/indenting
13 - Multilevel undo/redo
14 - Flexible multi-document search and replace with history
15 - Recursive searching of documents on disk with interactive browsing of
17 - In-editor make command with GNU-compatible error browsing
18 - Split single- and multi-document views
20 Zen is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. See
21 the file 'COPYING' included with Zen for more information.
27 The latest version of Zen is avilible at
28 https://open.nit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=Zen, where you will also find
29 information on how to report bugs and contribute patches to Zen.
35 Zen runs under the GNOME 2.6 environment. It uses several of the new GTK+2.4
36 widgets so it will not run under older versions. Zen also makes use of the
37 GConf 2.0 and GNOME-vfs 2.0 libraries. All of these libraries ar availible
38 from http://gnome.org.
40 Additionally, Zen uses the GtkSourceView 1.0 library, which is availible
41 at http://gtksourceview.sourceforge.net.
43 If you are running Debian unstable (like me), you will need to have at least
44 the libgtksourceview-dev, libgnomeui-dev, and libgnomevfs2-dev packages
45 installed to build Zen.
51 Simple install procedure:
53 $ tar zxf zen-1.0.0.tar.gz
65 $ rpmbuild -ta zen-1.0.0.tar.gz
67 See the file 'INSTALL' for more detailed information.
73 Thanks to Net Integration technologies (http://open.nit.ca) for supporting
74 the development of Zen through the employee NDF (Non-Directional Friday)
77 Thanks to William Lachance for creating the RPM package for Zen.
79 Thanks to Graciela Piccardi for her patience and her choosing the name