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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

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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.

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Using Niki

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  • 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
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