NEdit
tabbed interface. | |
Initial release | 1992[1] |
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Stable release | 5.7[2]
/ 8 February 2017 |
Written in | C |
Type | Text editor |
License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
Website | sourceforge |
NEdit, the Nirvana editor, is a
NEdit is extensible through a C-like macro language, and it features automatic indentation and
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
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]
See also
- List of text editors
- Comparison of text editors
- List of Unix commands
References
- ^ "NEdit's history". Archived from the original on 2006-09-26.
- ^ "NEdit - Browse /nedit-source at SourceForge.net".
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU Licenses - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation".
- ^ "Project Statistics: NEdit". Archived from the original on 2014-03-10.
- ^ "Project Statistics: NEdit". Archived from the original on 2014-03-10.
- ^ Git repository at SourceForge
- ^ "5.6 for real!". NEdit / News. 2014. Retrieved 2015-03-11.
- ^ "GitHub - unixwork/xnedit: A fast and classic X11 text editor, based on NEdit, with full unicode support and antialiased text rendering". GitHub.