Beeswax

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Release Name: v0.2.0

Notes: Beeswax - http://waxandwane.org/beeswax/ - http://sourceforge.net/projects/beeswax/ Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Ross Palmer Mohn <rpmohn at waxandwane dot org> See gpl.txt file for license details. DESCRIPTION ----------- Beeswax is an information management system inspired by Lotus Agenda. It aims to recreate Agenda's flexibility and efficiency in a clutter-free, text-based (ncursesw) user interface with vi key bindings. Beeswax views & reports will have specifications for sections, columns, filtering, and sorting. REQUIREMENTS ------------ * a UNIX-like OS (I'm developing with Gentoo GNU/Linux v2.6) * libxml2 * ncursesw (UTF-8 encoding) * GNU Readline * the uuid library that is distributed with e2fsprogs. More uuid libraries could be supported in the future, such as OSSP uuid. INSTALLATION ------------ You should validate the the download with the command sha1sum --check beeswax-0.2.0.tar.gz.sha1 Now check the config.mk file for your system, especially PREFIX, INCS, and LIBS. tar xzf beeswax-0.2.0.tar.gz cd beeswax-0.2.0 make install CONFIGURATION ------------ The configuration file is ~/.beeswaxrc. It is an XML file in which you can define custom colors for certain parts of the UI. Color choices are documented within the file's internal DTD. USAGE ----- beeswax [OPTION] [STRING...] -f, --file=FILE to specify a beeswax document to open -h, --help display this help and exit -v, --version output version information and exit COMMAND KEY BINDINGS -------------------- basic actions: i - insert new item e - edit current item D - delete current item n - view/edit note of current item K - move item up within category (see also attach/detach) J - move item down within category (see also attach/detach) ^P - print current view ? - help screen ^L - redraw screen w - write (save) document q - quit navigation: These commands may be prefaced with a number multiplier k, <UP> - navigate up j, <DOWN> - navigate down ^F, <PGDN> - scroll forward one page ^B, <PGUP> - scroll backward one page attach/detach: d - detach current item from current category, but do not delete a - display category attachment list for current item <SPACE> - toggle category attachments for current item <ENTER>, q - return from attachment category list category actions: h - promote an item in the tree hierarchy l - demote an item in the tree hierarchy. advanced navigation: / - find regular expression in list (case insensitive) g, <HOME> - select first line in list G, <END> - select last line in list H - select first line on screen M - select middle line on screen L - select last line on screen z., zz - redraw screen with current item in middle z<ENTER> - redraw screen with current item at top z- - redraw screen with current item at bottom