Hi, I use nedit as well. It's great for programming with its syntax highlighting and light-weight interface, as mentioned before. I always start it with "nedit" though. Does running "nc" do anything different from typing "nedit"? Jonathan On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 22:58:16 -0700, Patrick Nelson <pnelson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Terry Barnaby wrote: > > > Ian Pilcher wrote: > > > >> Marius Andreiana wrote: > >> > >>> Does anybody use nedit in fedora? Maybe this can be moved to extras. > >>> > >>> The command line to start it is "nc", same as nc for netcat and almost > >>> same as mc for midnight commander. > >>> > >> > >> I use it all the time. I haven't found anything else that is as light- > >> weight (no KDE or Gnome overhead), intuitive (straightforward menus), > >> and functional (decent syntax highlighting, good translation between > >> user-defined and hardware tabs). > >> > >> It lacks the anti-aliased fonts of more modern editors, but a well > >> designed bitmap font is arguably better for a text editor anyway. > >> > >> My only real complaint is the lack of UTF-8 support. It wasn't such a > >> problem until I married a Peruvian. > >> > > > > I am another dedicated nedit user. We use it as our main development > > editor. It is quick and simple. Although we have made our own shell > > script "be" to get around the problem of the "nc" front end clashing > > with the netcat one. > > > > Terry > > > Yep me to... We use it as the main dev editor as well and used a > similar script to get around nc. >
