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gnotepad+ User's Manual</h1>
<i>Andy Kahn</i>
<br><i><font size=-1>19 February 2000</font></i>
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<a NAME="intro"></a>1. Introduction</h2>

<blockquote>Welcome to gnotepad+.&nbsp; gnotepad+ is an easy-to-use, yet
fairly feature-rich, simple HTML&nbsp;and text editor for Unix based systems
running
<a href="http://www.x11.org">X11</a> and using <a href="http://www.gtk.org">GTK</a>
(the <a href="http://www.gimp.org">Gimp</a> ToolKit) or <a href="http://www.gnome.org">GNOME</a>.&nbsp;
gnotepad+ was designed to have as little bloat as possible, while still
providing many of the common features found in a modern GUI-based text
editor.&nbsp; It is still fairly light-weight, especially for the features
it offers, and aims to remain that way.
<p>The "+" in gnotepad+ is there to differentiate it from other GTK-based
text editors which may call themselves "gnotepad".&nbsp; Additionally,
gnotepad+ is not intended to be fancy, so it leverages its text editing
capabilities on the
<a href="http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/gtk_tut-14.html">GTK Text Widget</a>.
Hence, if you are looking for
a programmers's editor, look for another text editor or help improve the
GTK Text Widget.
<p>gnotepad+ is
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a>
(also called <a href="http://www.opensource.org">open source</a>)
developed and distributed under the
(<a href="http://www.gnu.org">GNU</a>)
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">General Public License</a>.
Please see the <a href="index-5.html#copyright">COPYRIGHT</a>
for details on its licensing.
<p>In the rest of this manual, gnotepad+ will commonly be referred to as
"gnotepad" and "gnp".</blockquote>

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