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jNPad v0.3 (Feb. 2017)
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jNPad's an Simple Text Editor written in Java. It is designed to be easy to use, highly customizable and flexible.

Some of jNPad's features include:
	- Drag and Drop
	- Multi-Document
	- Multi-View
	- Multi-Mode (Default, Basic, Minimalist, Distraction Free) 
	- Multi-Keymap
	- Auto indent, and syntax highlighting
	- Support of DOS/Windows, Unix and Mac newline formats 
	- Auto codeset detection (UTF-8 and some codesets)
	- Auto-completion
	- Bookmarking
	- Highly configurable and customizable.

	
Requirements
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A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6 or later is required to run jNPad. You can download it at http://java.com.


Run
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- Option 1: 
Run executable
	jnpad.exe or jnpad.bat (Windows) 
	jnpad.sh (UN*X) 

- Option 2: 
Double click on jnpad-0.3.jar
	
- Option 3: 
Simply untar or unzip the binary distribution, cd into the jnpad-0.3 directory, and run the jar file:

	$ tar xvfz jnpad-0.3-binary.tgz
	$ cd jnpad-0.3
	$ java -jar jnpad-0.3.jar

Or for Windows: 

	C:\> unzip jnpad-0.3-binary.zip
	C:\> cd jnpad-0.3
	C:\jnpad-0.3> java -jar jnpad-0.3.jar
 

License
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jNPad is released under GPL-2 license (see license.txt)

jNPad uses the following third party works:

 - A few classes of the ICU4J library released under the ICU License.
   the ICU project can be found at http://icu-project.org


Command Line Interface
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Usage:
		jnpad [arguments] [[-e] <files-to-edit>] [-v <files-to-view>] [-s <session-file>]
		
	Where:
		-e, -edit, --edit <files-to-edit>		Files to edit
		-v, -view, --view <files-to-view>		Files to view (read only)
		-s, -session, --session <session-file>	Load a specific session
		
	Arguments:
		-h, -help, --help, -?, /?				Give this help list
		-b, -basic, --basic						Run in basic mode
		-d, -default, --default					Run in default mode
		-m, -minimalist, --minimalist			Run in minimalist mode
		-version, --version						Displays the version of the program

		
Updates
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Check the web site from time to time to stay informed about the updates:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/jnpad
