---
name: "katoob"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "katoob"
version: "0.5.9.1-3"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/katoob"
---

# katoob(1)

A Gtk2 light weight multilingual BiDi aware text editor. katoob is a text editor for X, You can use it to create and edit text files. Katoob support reading and saving text files in many encodings. As well as importing / exporting to HTML character reference.

## NAME

katoob - A Gtk2 light weight multilingual BiDi aware text editor.

katoob is a text editor for X, You can use it to create and edit text files.  Katoob support reading and saving text files in many encodings. As well as  importing / exporting to HTML character reference.

## SYNOPSIS

**katoob** \[*options*\] *files*...\

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **katoob** commands.

**katoob** is a light weight, multi lingual, BiDi aware text editor. It  supports opening and saving files in multiple encodings. The main support was for Arabic language but more languages are currently supported.

## OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-'). A summary of options is included below.

- **-h, --help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-v, --version**

  Show version of program.

- **-u, --usage**

  Display brief usage message.

- **-**

  Read input from the standard input.

- **files...**

  Specifies the files to be opened. Multiple files are supported but they should  be separated by spaces, Reading from pipes is also supported by using a dash "-". If no files specified, Katoob'll start with an empty document.

## FILES

- $HOME/.katoob/

  User's configuration files directory

- $HOME/.katoob/config

  Main configuration file

- $HOME/.katoob/recent

  Recent files list

- $PREFIX/share/katoob

  Global program directory

## EXAMPLES

- Opening multiple files:

  katoob foo.txt bar.text zot

- Opening a file called foo and the output of cat:

  cat bar \| katoob foo -

- Reading from a pipe:

  ls \| katoob -

- Reading from multiple pipes:

  katoob - -

Here katoob'll try to read from the standard input 2 times. To close the standard input you should press CTRL-D For each dash passed, Katoob'll reopen the standard input and read from it.

## BUGS

Something like **cat foo \| katoob - -** "should read cat output and then wait for the user  input and open each one in a separate document" is not supported.

## AUTHOR

**katoob** was written by Mohammed Sameer.

## BUGS

Bugs should be reported at http://bugzilla.arabeyes.org/ or the Arabeyes.org  developer mailing list developer@arabeyes.org.