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WebHelper
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About
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WebHelper is a plugin for Geany that provides some web development facilities,
such as a web page preview and some debugging tools (web inspector).


Prominent features
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* A basic web view, allowing to display any web page (using WebKit);
* Possible automatic reloading of the web view upon document saving;
* A web inspector/debugging tool for the web view's content (including a
  JavaScript console, a viewer and editor of processed HTML and CSS, a network
  usage analysis tool and many more, thanks to WebKit).


Requirements
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This plugin requires GTK+ (>= 2.16), GLib (>= 2.16), GIO (>= 2.18),
GdkPixbuf (>= 2.0), WebKitGTK (>= 1.1.18), and obviously Geany (>= 0.20) to
work. If you indent to build it yourself, you will need to get the development
files of these libraries. You can find these packages at http://www.geany.org/,
http://www.gtk.org/ and http://www.webkitgtk.org/.


Installation
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For detailed instructions, see the INSTALL file of the Geany-Plugins package
this plugin is part of.


Usage
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When loaded into Geany, this plugins adds a web view in the message window
(the default), the sidebar or in a separate window. You can find most of the
features from this view.


License
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WebHelper is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version. You should have received a copy
of the GNU General Public License along with WebHelper.  If not, see
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.


Contact
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You can email me at <ban(at)herbesfolles(dot)org>, and I may also be on the
#geany channel on FreeNode, under the `b4n` nickname.


Bug reports and feature requests
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To report a bug or ask for a new feature, please use the Geany-Plugins tracker
on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=222729