[Eddi-devel] Help document

[Jan K. <jan...@pa...>]

Hello,

I've started working on the help document.
I've made a rough draft for the structure (included below) and I've
written an introduction too. If your volunteer to write a certain part,
please let me know.

btw, I've also solved a bug that caused the printing not to work when the
file wasn't saved yet and to not print the last character on a line.

--help-structure--
This is a rough draft for the structure that the help should have.

- Introduction
	small description of eddi, it's great funtionality and why it should be used.
	+ website
- Basic usage
	The usual stuff, copying, pasting, saving files, search,...
	basically everything in the menus file, edit, search, goto and insert.
	(+ keycodes)
- Macro's
	An introduction to macro's and how to use them.
- Project files
	Maybe this should be in the basics? Introduction to the project files menu and
	what to use it for. Also mention it's limitations (it uses absolute pathnames
	=> projects files are broken when you move them to other dirs,...).
- Extensions
	What the extensions are, how to use them (anw how you can add more of them).
- Options
	Description off all the options and what they do.
- Commands
	the commands that can be used in the command bar (= status bar in case you didn't
	know)
- regexp search
	Explain how the regular expression search works.

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                                  The Eddi Editor - Manual

                                                 Jan Keirse

                                               6th May 2002


Contents
1 Introduction                                                                                               1

2 Basic usage                                                                                                1

1 Introduction
Eddi is a very powerfull and easy to use editor for X. It was originally was orginally written by Holger
Schanz, but is now maintained by a team of developers that can be found at http://eddi.sf.net and
http://sf.net/projects/eddi.

   The big advantage off eddi over other editors is that it combines power with easyness to learn and use.
While there are easy to use editors for X, and there are powerfull editors like emacs and vim, most don't
combine these two things. Holger fealt sad about that and decided to write his own editor, that was so good
that we decided to take over now that he has dissapeared.

   Among other thins, eddi supports easy to use macro's, powerfull syntax highlighting, build filter acces,
projects files,. . . This makes it the perfect editor for everyone who does want a very good editor but doesn't
want to take the time to learn vim or emacs. There are even persons that used vi for about 10 years and have
now taken the step to eddi.

2 Basic usage

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Greets,

Jan

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