Skip to content

keyword search: ITC

ITCWeb Mobile

For:

• Get Started
• Get Help
• Find Services

ITC Announces the upgrade of the Nedit Editor to version 5.1.1 on its IRIX, Solaris and RS6000 platfroms (nedit is found in the /contrib/bin area).

NEdit is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) style text editor for programs and plain-text files. Users of Macintosh and MS Windows based text editors will find NEdit a familiar and comfortable environment. NEdit provides all of the standard menu, dialog, editing, and mouse support, as well as all of the standard shortcuts to which the users of modern GUI based environments are accustomed. For users of older style Unix editors, welcome to the world of mouse-based editing!

The most significant enhancements of this release are:

• New regular expression code, boosts highlighting performance by 40%, and introduces many new and powerful features to regular expression operations and syntax highlighting.
• Incremental search, and optional search bar.
• New ctags code with full support for Exuberant Ctags, better handling of tag collisions, multiple tag file support, on-demand loading of tag files, and automatic reload of modified tag files.
• Optional display of line numbers along the left side of the text.
• NEdit can now read and write MS DOS format files.
• New built-in syntax highlighting patterns for Lex, PostScript, SQL, and Matlab, and improved SGML/HTML and Java patterns. Many minor improvements to other patterns.
• Improved international character set input
• New macro subroutines: list_dialog, getenv, set_language_mode.
• Optional warnings about external modifications to files
• Clearcase awareness
• Session manager restart capability

Nedit 5.1.1 Help Page
A comprehensive source of information on the nedit editor.

FAQ
The Official nedit FAQ.

The Nedit Home Page
A page devoted to the nedit editor. Visit this site to learn how to subscribe to the nedit mailing list or to obtain nedit macros.