A fast and classic X11 text editor, based on NEdit, with full unicode support and antialiased text rendering.

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  • I just compiled the code for Fedora 36. If you have nedit already installed, you still might need to install the following: libXt-devel.x86_64 libXmu-devel.x86_64 motif-devel.x86_64 libXpm-devel.x86_64. Seems to work OK; you may want to edit the xnedit nedit.rc file to match nedit nedit.rc, as opposed to going through the default chooser in a running xnedit editor. I'm not sure this should be on the review page, but someone more familiar with the project might want to have this somewhere else.
  • XNEdit is easy to use and very easy on resources. Most of its functionality is keyboard-friendly, no need to use the mouse (but you can if you so wish). I use it as my every day lightweight editor, with Emacs whenever I need an IDE instead. If you liked the venerable NEdit, you would like XNEdit even more.
  • I'm using NEdit since the 90s on any *nix system I was on. It's the perfect editor for daily work and programming, especially the macro system is very useful for me. This fork with it's UTF8 support brings it to the next level. Simply perfect.
  • was using nedit since 1996, was struggling for years that nedit did not support modern fonts and utf8, this project ensure that i will continue to use xnedit for the next 25 years, thanks
  • Hi, Just a great thanks for all the effort on this. nedit has been the main fs editor here since the early 1990's, and use it daily for work, but this updated version fixes previous limitations and plots a path for the future. Built and installed in minutes under FreeBSD 12... Chris
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

BSD, Linux, Solaris

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop, System Administrators

User Interface

Motif/LessTif, X Window System (X11)

Programming Language

C

Related Categories

C Text Editors, C Integrated Development Environments (IDE)

Registered

2019-01-07