My preferred text editor going back to the IRIX days of nedit.
mixmastamyk 1 days ago [-]
Yes, loved nedit around the turn of the century. At some point I moved to geany, later combined with micro.
Paianni 18 hours ago [-]
This is trying to fill the gap between console Unicode editors (e.g mined) and the 'full-fat' editors typically built around GTK or Qt. I'm not too keen they decided to mess around with the Motif File selection dialog to make it more 'Nautilus-like'.
satiated_grue 11 hours ago [-]
I still use NEdit the same way I use notepad on Windows. Quick work on small ASCII-only files.
RicoElectrico 10 hours ago [-]
One thing NEdit has going for it is its speed when working with very large files on the order of a GB. Out of GUI editors it seemed to handle such files the best. Used it a lot as a chip designer at Synopsys, the large files in question being RCc extraction netlists. Granted it was kinda buggy, but most of us stuck with it.
zzo38computer 1 days ago [-]
Is the original version available without antialiased text and Unicode? Both are features I specifically do not want.
(However, the X locale features are not made very well; they could have been done better (for example, it should not require the C library locale to match the X windows locale, but it does, which can cause some locales to not work, as well as other problems; there is also the bug in Xlib (and problems with the distribution) that requires it to be compiled differently for some locales than other locales).)
mixmastamyk 1 days ago [-]
Nedit is packaged in most distros.
trevithick 1 days ago [-]
Why do you not want those features? What is your use case?
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(However, the X locale features are not made very well; they could have been done better (for example, it should not require the C library locale to match the X windows locale, but it does, which can cause some locales to not work, as well as other problems; there is also the bug in Xlib (and problems with the distribution) that requires it to be compiled differently for some locales than other locales).)