NEdit

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NEdit
Initial release1992 (1992) [1]
Stable release
5.7 [2]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 8 February 2017
Written inC
Type Text editor
License GPL-2.0-or-later
Website sourceforge.net/projects/nedit/

NEdit, the Nirvana editor, is a text editor and source code editor for the X Window System. It has an interface similar to text editors on Microsoft Windows and Macintosh, rather than to older UNIX editors like Emacs. It was initially developed by Mark Edel for Fermilab and released under a very restrictive licence, but today it is distributed under the less restrictive GPL-2.0-or-later (plus Motif clause [3] ) and is developed as an independent open-source project by a team of developers. Nedit was also distributed with the IRIX operating system.

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NEdit is extensible through a C-like macro language, and it features automatic indentation and syntax highlighting for a wide variety of computer languages. NEdit can also process tags files generated using the Unix ctags command or the Exuberant Ctags program.

Its user interface is built using the Motif toolkit, which made it an immediate success with a wide range of Unix platforms whose user interfaces use that toolkit. For a fully open source version, the alternative LessTif library could be used instead, but more recently the main Motif toolkit was made open source as well.

Major development on SourceForge stopped in 2010, [4] with minor updates being made as recently as February 2017. [5] According to the project's news page the source repository has been converted from CVS to Git in September 2014. [6]

Version 5.6 was released in December 2014, after more than ten years since the release of the previous version, reflecting changes made during the time. This code is based on what was in the Debian NEdit package for some time. [7]

XNEdit - Unicode support

From 2018, development continued on GitHub in the form of XNEdit, a fork of NEdit version 5.7. Version 1.4 offers full Unicode support, antialiased text rendering, modern Open/Save dialog and Drag&Drop of tabs. [8]

XNEdit 1.5.2 modern open dialog, with clickable path, create directory, file details, hidden files, Unicode encoding selection XNEdit1.5.2 openDialog.png
XNEdit 1.5.2 modern open dialog, with clickable path, create directory, file details, hidden files, Unicode encoding selection

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References

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  2. "NEdit - Browse /nedit-source at SourceForge.net".
  3. "Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU Licenses - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation".
  4. "Project Statistics: NEdit". Archived from the original on 2014-03-10.
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  6. Git repository at SourceForge
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  8. "GitHub - unixwork/xnedit: A fast and classic X11 text editor, based on NEdit, with full unicode support and antialiased text rendering". GitHub .