gnotepad+ User's Manual: Introduction

# gnotepad+ User's Manual

Andy Kahn
19 February 2000

## 1. Introduction

> Welcome to gnotepad+. gnotepad+ is an easy-to-use, yet fairly feature-rich, simple HTML and text editor for Unix based systems running X11 and using GTK (the Gimp ToolKit) or GNOME. 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. It is still fairly light-weight, especially for the features it offers, and aims to remain that way.

> The "+" in gnotepad+ is there to differentiate it from other GTK-based text editors which may call themselves "gnotepad". Additionally, gnotepad+ is not intended to be fancy, so it leverages its text editing capabilities on the GTK Text Widget. Hence, if you are looking for a programmers's editor, look for another text editor or help improve the GTK Text Widget.

> gnotepad+ is free software (also called open source) developed and distributed under the (GNU) General Public License. Please see the COPYRIGHT for details on its licensing.

> In the rest of this manual, gnotepad+ will commonly be referred to as "gnotepad" and "gnp".