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+Gate is text-gatherer. A text-gatherer is like a text-editor, but much
+more lightweight and unobtrusive. 
+
+If you have a program or shell script that asks people to enter a small
+chunk of text, a text-gatherer like Gate is a good way to do it. It
+doesn't clear the screen (annoying if there were just some instructions
+printed there). It doesn't require you to know a lot of obscure editing
+commands. It doesn't make excessive demands on the intelligence of your
+terminal emulation software. 
+
+It does provide a number of features that make it easier for novice users
+to produce good text. It does word-wrap, prints a prompt on each new line,
+and allows backspacing from the currently line onto previous lines. It
+also provides features that a more experienced user can use. You can call
+up normal editor, or use some of gate's simple-minded editing
+commands. You can read in files, or save your text to a file. You can
+filter your text through something like the unix "fmt" command. It
+provides a nice spell-checking interface too. 
+
+WWW: http://www.wwnet.net/~janc/gate.html