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author | Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@FreeBSD.org> | 2016-05-19 10:21:23 +0000 |
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committer | Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@FreeBSD.org> | 2016-05-19 10:21:23 +0000 |
commit | 1d1f878054efdd1171a8cb006e59ad0727610293 (patch) | |
tree | e4434b89d2dbba884e57f6a6cd3c7fc294554ccf /editors/gate | |
parent | 43b793a6f26531f807a7b7c16a1db3bf6b53f26d (diff) | |
download | ports-1d1f878054efdd1171a8cb006e59ad0727610293.tar.gz ports-1d1f878054efdd1171a8cb006e59ad0727610293.zip |
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diff --git a/editors/gate/pkg-descr b/editors/gate/pkg-descr index 85818c33e43f..7f41336478d3 100644 --- a/editors/gate/pkg-descr +++ b/editors/gate/pkg-descr @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ Gate is text-gatherer. A text-gatherer is like a text-editor, but much -more lightweight and unobtrusive. +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. +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, @@ -15,6 +15,6 @@ 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. +provides a nice spell-checking interface too. WWW: http://www.unixpapa.com/gate.html |