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The Text widget provides a window that will allow an application to display and edit one
or more lines of text. Options are provided to allow the user to add scrollbars or disable
text editing. 
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The text widget provides a minimal set of the common (emacs-like) keyboard editing
commands as well as the X11 cut and paste mechanism.
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The text widget also supports a set of hardcoded text properties. Current supported
text properties are:  <em> font, underlining, 
bitmap/pixmap, background color, foreground color </em>
and <em> callback function </em>.

