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+EDI - The Enlightened IDE
+===
+
+This is a project to create a complete IDE using EFL.
+
+Using autotools to install this software is the usual:
+
+# ./autogen.sh
+# make
+# sudo make install
+
+After that just launch
+
+# edi
+
+and it will prompt for a project (directory) location or you can specify like:
+
+# edi ~/Code/myproject
+
+to open the specified project.
+