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by BK » Mon, 20 Aug 2001 19:14:23

Hi.

I haven't been doing anything with Unix for a couple of years and got a
bit rusty, so I'd like to ask some help.

I run BSD (MachTen) on an old Mac and want to do some stuff. In order to
edit configuration files I need an editor, but I am simply too stupid
and too lazy to keep up with ed or vi - I need a bare bones X11 based
editor like xedit.

Unfortunately xedit is not included in the MachTen distribution. Emacs
is but it won't run and I don't know how to fix it - may be too heavy
for the old machine anyway.

I have spent the entire day trying to locate xedit sources using various
search engines and archie. Couldn't find a package anywhere.

Lots of references and a few WebCVS pages but nothing I could actually
donwload and build. Does anybody have any pointers ?

Alternatively, has anyone got an X based bare bones editor that can be
build under MachTen ? I have tried various editors: nedit, vim, xed.
None of them builds and I don't know anything about how to change the
makefiles such that it would compile.

any help appreciated.

rgds
BK

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by **those who know me have no need of my nam** » Mon, 20 Aug 2001 22:08:10

Quote:>I need an editor, but I am simply too stupid
>and too lazy to keep up with ed or vi -

`keep up with' -- huh?

Quote:>I have spent the entire day trying to locate xedit sources using various
>search engines and archie. Couldn't find a package anywhere.

ftp.x.org not working? (it's a contrib item, hence
<ftp://ftp.x.org:/pub/unsupported/programs/xedit/>.)

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by BK » Mon, 20 Aug 2001 23:53:30

> >I need an editor, but I am simply too stupid
> >and too lazy to keep up with ed or vi -

> `keep up with' -- huh?

what I meant to say was "keep up (or better put up) with the sh... er
trouble of using them."

Quote:> ftp.x.org not working? (it's a contrib item, hence
> <ftp://ftp.x.org:/pub/unsupported/programs/xedit/>.)

thanks a lot for the pointer. Got it. Built it. Working ...

thanks again
BK

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by **Paul A Stor** » Wed, 22 Aug 2001 01:01:00

> Hi.

> I haven't been doing anything with Unix for a couple of years and got a
> bit rusty, so I'd like to ask some help.

> I run BSD (MachTen) on an old Mac and want to do some stuff. In order to
> edit configuration files I need an editor, but I am simply too stupid
> and too lazy to keep up with ed or vi - I need a bare bones X11 based
> editor like xedit.

> Unfortunately xedit is not included in the MachTen distribution. Emacs
> is but it won't run and I don't know how to fix it - may be too heavy
> for the old machine anyway.

> I have spent the entire day trying to locate xedit sources using various
> search engines and archie. Couldn't find a package anywhere.

> Lots of references and a few WebCVS pages but nothing I could actually
> donwload and build. Does anybody have any pointers ?

> Alternatively, has anyone got an X based bare bones editor that can be
> build under MachTen ? I have tried various editors: nedit, vim, xed.
> None of them builds and I don't know anything about how to change the
> makefiles such that it would compile.

> any help appreciated.

> rgds
> BK

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Try this, http://www.wrkgrp.com/uniXEDIT/index.html

by **Satan D'Asto** » Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:48:35

i use 'nedit' & it's in the ports (/usr/ports/editors/nedit)

www.nedit.org

it work fine for me!

by **Brian Masinic** » Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:58:36

I agree with this suggestion. Though xedit is certainly easy to
use as a "bare bones" X11-based text editor, nedit is readily
available from many sources, it is easy to build and binaries are
also available. Nedit, also known as Nirvana, can function as a
bare-bones editor, because it is not too large in size, and it
has all the cut and paste facilities that you would want, like
xedit.

Should you want to get a little more creative, however, nedit is
extremely customizable, and it can also do things like
rectangular cut and paste operations on columns of data.

For someone who wants to use mouse button operations, nedit is
very good, yet, even so, you can use it with keystrokes as well.

> i use 'nedit' & it's in the ports (/usr/ports/editors/nedit)

> www.nedit.org

> it work fine for me!

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