NEdit is a GUI style plain text editor for workstations with X Windows and Motif. It supports a thorough set of features for programming and general purpose text editing. Features: -- Resizable windows with graphical scroll bars -- Pull down menus + character accelerators -- Mouse based editing, select and move text by clicking and dragging -- Undo -- Cut and Paste with other X Windows/Motif programs -- Full featured search and replace using selections or dialogs -- Features for programmers: Auto-indent Block indentation adjustment Parenthesis Matching Find lines directly from compiler error output Unix ctags support INSTALLATION NEdit consists of a single, stand-alone executable file which does not require any special installation beyond copying it to your system and making it accessible to users. To install NEdit on Unix systems: 1) Copy the appropriate executable to your system using ftp in binary mode, changing the name to remove the _sgi, _ibm, etc. suffix. 2) Check that the file has execute permission. If not, use the chmod command to make it executable. 3) Add the directory containing the file to your path. To install NEdit on VMS systems: 1) Copy nedit_vms.exe to your system using ftp in binary mode, changing the name to nedit.exe. 2) Define a foreign command called nedit to invoke the nedit executable. For example, if nedit.exe were in the directory mydir on the disk called mydev, adding the following line to your login.com file would define the nedit command: $ ned*it :== $mydev:[mydir]nedit.exe RUNNING NEDIT If you are accessing a host Unix system from a remote workstation or X terminal, you need to set the Unix environment variable for your display: % setenv DISPLAY devicename:0 where devicename is the network node name of the workstation or X terminal where you are typing. On VMS systems, the equivalent command is: $ set display/create/node=devicename To run NEdit, simply type "nedit", optionally followed by the name of a file or files to edit. Online help is available from the pulldown menu on the far right of the menu bar. For more information on the syntax of the nedit command line, look under the heading of "NEdit Command Line." PROBLEMS, QUESTIONS, COMMENTS: Mark Edel edel@fnal.gov Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory P.O. Box 500 Batavia, IL 60148 Before reporting a problem, please check the Problems/Bugs section of the online help to make sure the problem is not already known.