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The Nedit text editor

The default text edit in Gensys is the Nedit-editor. Nedit is a highly customizable text editor based on the Motif widget toolkit and the X Window System.

Users manual

Can be found with this link:

Initialization

To configure Nedit so it will work well together with Gensys. File $HOME/.nedit/nedit.rc must be present in the users home directory.

Fold text blocks

In order to be able to fold text blocks in the Gensys-files, the following two files must be present autoload.nm and fold.nm.

Special features

Editor Nedit is an advanced editor and it is also higly customable. Following notisable features are:

• Rectangular selections can be made by pressing down the CTRL-key
• Regular expressions can be used in search and replacement strings.
• UNIX-command can be executed in the editor. The output of the command will be pasted in the file directly after the UNIX-command.

Using another editor

If the user prefers to use his/hers own favorite editor, environment variable $genedit must be defined.