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NEdit is a powerful, light, and user-friendly GUI text editor for the X Window System. It runs on Unix, Windows, MacOS X, OS/2 and VMS. More information at the official NEdit homepage

Contents 1 Google Summer of Code 1.1 Google Summer of Code 2008 2 Contents 2.1 Features 2.2 User's Cookbook 2.3 Advanced Use 2.4 Miscellaneous 2.5 Using Niki

Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code 2008

• Idea Page

Contents

Features

NEdit has many cool features but some major ones which particularly stand out are:

• Easy to use -- Just run it and start typing. :)
• Supports multiple tabs per window (and can also open up multiple editing windows).
• SyntaxHighlighting -- Of course, NEdit provides colorized syntax highlighting for most types of files you're likely to come across.
• Macros -- NEdit is scriptable using it's own very simple scripting language. It's easy to add your own macros, or just ones you've found on the web.
• CallTips -- Pop-up help for various keywords in your file.
• TagFileSupport -- NEdit can use tag files to chase down various declarations throughout your project's code.
• Shell Commands Inside NEdit -- NEdit can run shell commands on selected text, and even take on-screen text as a command to be evaluated.
• AutoComplete -- Finish the word you're in the middle of typing.
• Rectangular selections -- Ctrl-left_click_drag to make rectangular selections. Ctrl-middle_click_drag to instantly copy/paste the rectangular selection to the cursor location (works even between NEdit windows!).
• Lightweight and Fast -- NEdit is written in C using only the X11 and Lesstif [1] libraries (some versions of NEdit may instead come with or link to Motif/OpenMotif), so it's extremely fast. Size-wise, the NEdit binary itself on my GNU/Linux system is only 2.5 MB, and that's with Lesstif statically linked in!
• Simple key combinations -- For example, Ctrl-arrow keys for word-by-word paragraph-by-paragraph cursor movement. Hold down Shift to select text during cursor movement.

See also the features area of the official website for more info.

User's Cookbook

• Programming Languages Support
• Customizing NEdit -- icons, colors, making Motif less ugly, and some useful things too.
• PatternSets -- Highlighting for additional languages
• Macro Collection -- and some shell-menu stuff too
• Accessories -- Essential macro packages and external helper applications
• BugTracker -- how to report problems
• NEdit FAQ -- user maintained FAQ

Advanced Use

• Macro Programming -- Basic Rules, best practices
• Syntax Highlighting Patterns -- How to create and maintain
• NEdit regex vs Perl regex -- differences between NEdit's and Perl's regular expressions
• Developer's Howto -- Hack the source.
• Website Maintenance -- How to update nedit.org

Miscellaneous

• Roadmap
• Feature Wishlist
• Patches
• NEditDocPad
• Links
• Glossary
• UserPreferences
• Index (AllPages)
• MostPopular

Using Niki

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list

• AddingPages
• TextFormattingRules
• NewMarkupTestPage
• SandBox - Try out wiki editing without risk of doing any damage
• What is a WikiWikiWeb
• HowToUseWiki
• [Documentation|PhpWikiDocumentation]
• PhpWiki Release Notes
• Motivation: Why Another NEdit Site?
• MetaNiki - Discussion about this site