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+medit the text editor
+
+Started originally as a simple built-in editor component in GGAP, it grew up
+to a real text editor.
+
+The intention now is to make it a useful programming and around-programming
+text editor.
+
+Features
+    * Configurable syntax highlighting.
+    * Configurable keyboard accelerators.
+    * Multiplatform - works both on unix and windows.
+    * Plugins: can be written in C or Python.
+    * Configurable tools available from the main and context menus. They can
+      be written in Python, or it can be a shell script, or in MooScript -
+      simple builtin scripting lanugage.
+    * Regular expression search/replace, grep and find frontends, builtin file
+      selector and whatnot. 
+
+Required/Optional deps: PyGTK and Gamin, both available at slackbuilds.org
+ - Both PyGTK and Gamin add very useful functionality to medit, it is
+   recommended that you install them.
+ - PyGTK is auto-detected, Gamin is not. If you do not wish to have Gamin
+   support then remove the '--with-fam' line from the medit.SlackBuild
+   before building.