====== Features ======

==== Persistent State and History ====
All state information about the GUI is saved. Thus when you resize your window or hide the index pane these options are remembered. Furthermore the page you were editing is remembered as well as your cursor position and undo-stack. Close zim and restart it, you can work on where you left off.

==== Linking ====
Zim is not just a text editor, it also features links between files. This makes it possible to break up a large document in chewable pieces.

==== Keybindings ====
We aim to have as many key-bindings as possible in zim. So you should be able to use the application without loss of speed because there is no need to grab for your mouse. See [[keybindings]] for a list.

==== Auto Saving ====
Zim saves your page every 5 seconds. You don't have
to think about this yourself. In fact you don't even have to notice that you use multiple files when following links.

==== Auto Formatting ====
Zim has auto-indenting but also support a number of other sequences that get translated to formatting. See [[autoformat]].

==== Spell Checking ====
You can have spell checking in zim when you have Gtk2::Spell installed. Try turning it on in your [[config]].

==== Exporting ====
By default zim saves your pages as simple text files that can also be edited with other text editors. The export function is supplied to make it possible to also get your content in other formats like HTML. These exported documents can very well be used as the basis of an office document or a webpage. See [[exporting]] for more details.




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BROWSER, when a link like http://google.com is clicked
zim looks for an $BROWSER environment variable.
To override this you can put a browser command in the config file.

Note that in fact any url like mailto://, file://, smb:// etc. will
be forwarded to BROWSER. Therefor one might want to config a script
to dispatch these urls over different applications.

utf8: because both perl and gtk use utf8 internally this application should be transparent to utf8 text.

