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 COPYING
file in this distribution for complete text of the license.
Portions of code are licensed under GNU LGPL license. See COPYING.lib
file for the text of this license. Files released under LGPL have
special notes about the license as appropriate.

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.


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.