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Gate is text-gatherer. A text-gatherer is like a text-editor, but much
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more lightweight and unobtrusive.
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If you have a program or shell script that asks people to enter a small
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chunk of text, a text-gatherer like Gate is a good way to do it. It
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doesn't clear the screen (annoying if there were just some instructions
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printed there). It doesn't require you to know a lot of obscure editing
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commands. It doesn't make excessive demands on the intelligence of your
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terminal emulation software.
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It does provide a number of features that make it easier for novice users
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to produce good text. It does word-wrap, prints a prompt on each new line,
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and allows backspacing from the currently line onto previous lines. It
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also provides features that a more experienced user can use. You can call
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up normal editor, or use some of gate's simple-minded editing
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commands. You can read in files, or save your text to a file. You can
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filter your text through something like the unix "fmt" command. It
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provides a nice spell-checking interface too.
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WWW: http://www.unixpapa.com/gate.html
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