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 boxes
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-A test bed for a generic editor / pager thingy for the toybox project.
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+A test bed for a generic editor / pager thingy for the toybox project.
+
+The toybox project is at http://www.landley.net/code/toybox/ and boxes
+is covered by the same license that toybox is.  Basically that's a two
+clause BSD license, but see the LICENSE file from toybox for details.
+
+This is a work in progress, proof of concept, playground, packaged up as
+one big toy, to be self contained until the mess is cleaned up.  This
+"boxes" toy itself will go away, to be replaced by individual editor /
+pager toys and library bits.  Nothing is set in stone, lots of mess
+inside, there's bugs, but at least it shows the general direction my
+mind is wandering in.  As a bonus, it actually works, you can edit
+stuff.
+
+Please don't actually include this in toybox.  Just look at it and sneer
+/ giggle, depending on your nature.  Drop it into the toys directory to
+try it out, it's just one big toy.
+
+If you want to see how it can be used to build specific editors, start
+at the end and work backwards.  Reading the lengthy comments at the
+beginning would also be useful.
+
+I've not even looked at it in the last month, just thought it was past
+time to show the code.  I'll get back to working on it when I can.
+
+Toybox uses mecurial instead of git, but I keep all my stuff on github. 
+Boxes will hopefully be incorporated into toybox in a highly altered
+form some day in the future.  So this is just atemporary git repo for my
+convenience.  If and when boxes migrates to toybox, this repo will be
+retired.
+