Notable features

• Multiple selections, meaning that unlike most other word processors, the end user can select multiple parts of the text -- even if these parts are separated from each other -- and perform clipboard
  Clipboard (software)
  The clipboard is a software facility that can be used for short-term data storage and/or data transfer between documents or applications, via copy and paste operations...
  
   manipulations on them (e.g. selecting the first paragraph and the last paragraph of a document at the same time, and copying both of them to the clipboard).

• Table
  Table (information)
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   generator, allowing the creation and editing of tables.

• Multiple key map support, up to 5 simultaneously, allowing for the use of multiple languages simultaneously.

• Search and replace including color, style and font filters. For example, end users could search for the word "Apple" only in green (ignoring this word in other colors) and replace each occurrence with the word "Banana" in yellow.

• Multilingual string gadgets for creating and renaming files, drawers, etc. ("String gadgets" were what are now referred to as text box
  Text box
  A text box, text field or text entry box is a kind of widget used when building a graphical user interface . A text box's purpose is to allow the user to input text information to be used by the program...
  
  es or text fields.)

• Import and export multilingual ASCII files to and from PC
  IBM PC compatible
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   and Macintosh
  Macintosh
  The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...
  
  , i.e. ASCII
  ASCII
  The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text...
  
   (plain text
  Plain text
  In computing, plain text is the contents of an ordinary sequential file readable as textual material without much processing, usually opposed to formatted text....
  
  ) files from different platforms.

• Ultra fast screen updating and scrolling
  Scrolling
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  .

• Interchange File Format
  Interchange File Format
  Interchange File Format , is a generic container file format originally introduced by the Electronic Arts company in 1985 in order to ease transfer of data between software produced by different companies....
  
  (IFF) graphics support (import and export).

• Direct access to 255 characters of each font, similar to inserting "symbols" or "special characters" in modern word processor.

External links

• Rashumon versions at Aminet.net
• Personal web site of Michael Haephrati, developer of Rashumon