Beaver README Marc Bevand, Damien Terrier, and Emmanuel Turquin, 2000-2002 Michael Terry 2003 INTRODUCTION ------------ First of all, many thanks for your interest in Beaver. Beaver is an Early AdVanced EditoR, for Linux and other Unices (and even Windows); in other words, it's a text editor that is lightweight but full of features for programming, from web authoring to C programming. It is based on the GTK+ toolkit, supports tons of languages through config files (100% compatible with UltraEdit 'wordfile.txt' -- see ultraedit.com for more informations) and offers functions such as automatic indentation, correction and completion, or syntax highlighting. It also has its own mini macro language. Beaver is released under the GNU General Public License and has been started as an end-of-year project for our second year at the french computing school EPITA. Of course, any remark or advice (or even contribution) are the welcome! INSTALL ------- Please see the file INSTALL for instructions on installation. REQUIREMENTS ------------ For the Unix Version - A Unix-based operating system with X-Windows (oh, really?). - A recent (stable) version of GTK correctly installed (Beaver has been compiled on our PCs using GTK 1.2.10 and 1.2.9, but older releases should work fine too). For the Windows version - The GTK .dlls for use, and Mingwin or Cygwin if you want to compile the sources (kinda tricky). CURRENT FEATURES ---------------- - Syntax highlighting | All theses features are - Automatic indentation \ configurable via a file - Automatic completion / 100% compatible with - Automatic case-correction | UltraEdit wordfile.txt's - Languages supported by the default wordfile.txt provided: C/C++, HTML, JavaScript, Perl, PHP and Bash - You can choose your syntax highlighting mode - Multiple documents management - Preferences interface (you can also edit the config files, which are intended to be very clear, if you want) - Languages menus that can be created by users, through '.bl' files - Recent documents menu - Search & Replace capabilities - A command line that works fine - File informations window - Read only mode - Print function - Popup Document list - Menu accelerators that work - Save window size - Other configurable options: toolbar, document tabs, etc. - A base converter - A nice Color picker - Lots of surprises HOW TO REPORT BUGS ------------------ Simply send a mail to <mterry@fastmail.fm>, containing the usual informations and description. CONTACTING THE AUTHORS ---------------------- See the AUTHORS file for contact information. Once again, thank you for your interest in Beaver, we hope you enjoy using it. --- http://www.beaver-project.org
