General Information
===================

medit is a GTK text editor. Started as an editor component of GGAP
(http://ggap.sourceforge.net/), it grew up to a real full-featured
text editor.

medit is free software, released under GNU GPL license. See the LICENSE
file in this distribution for details.

The web site is:
    http://mooedit.sourcefoge.net/
releases are located at:
    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=167563


Installation
============

See INSTALL file in this distribution.


Bug reports and contact
=======================

Report bugs and file feature requests in medit bug base at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=167563&atid=843451 .
You can also send email to muntyan@tamu.edu if you don't feel like
using bug base, or have any questions/comments/beer.
medit IRC channel is #medit at irc.freenode.net.

Provide information available from menu Help > System Info
along with bug report. See also INSTALL file for instructions on how to
build medit for better debugging information.


CVS
===

medit sources are tracked using mercurial, therefore there is no
CVS or SVN access. You may browse medit repository online at
http://mooedit.sourceforge.net/hg/moo.
To check out a copy of medit repository, install mercurial, and do
hg clone http://mooedit.sourceforge.net/hg/moo
This will create a new directory named 'moo' with medit sources inside.
To update them later on, do
hg pull; hg update
in this directory.


Why?
====

If you are wondering why medit is written, there are two answers:
1) It wasn't a decision to write a text editor. It happened during
more than one year of GGAP development. And no, there is no usable
GTK text editor component.
2) Try it: if you like it, you know why. If you don't like it, ask
vim/emacs guys why don't they use emacs/vim.