NEdit is a GUI style plain text editor for workstations with X Windows and
Motif.  It supports a thorough set of features for programming and general
purpose text editing.

Features:

  -- Resizable windows with graphical scroll bars
  -- Pull down menus + character accelerators
  -- Mouse based editing, select and move text by clicking and dragging
  -- Undo
  -- Cut and Paste with other X Windows/Motif programs
  -- Full featured search and replace using selections or dialogs
  -- Features for programmers:
        Auto-indent
        Block indentation adjustment
        Parenthesis Matching
        Find lines directly from compiler error output
        Unix ctags support


INSTALLATION

NEdit consists of a single, stand-alone executable file which does not require
any special installation beyond copying it to your system and making it
accessible to users.

To install NEdit on Unix systems:

    1) Copy the appropriate executable to your system using ftp in binary
       mode, changing the name to remove the _sgi, _ibm, etc. suffix.

    2) Check that the file has execute permission.  If not, use the chmod
       command to make it executable.
    
    3) Add the directory containing the file to your path.
    
To install NEdit on VMS systems:

    1) Copy nedit_vms.exe to your system using ftp in binary mode, changing
       the name to nedit.exe.
       
    2) Define a foreign command called nedit to invoke the nedit executable.
       For example, if nedit.exe were in the directory mydir on the disk
       called mydev, adding the following line to your login.com file would
       define the nedit command:

            $ ned*it :== $mydev:[mydir]nedit.exe


RUNNING NEDIT

If you are accessing a host Unix system from a remote workstation or X terminal,
you need to set the Unix environment variable for your display:

	% setenv DISPLAY devicename:0
	
where devicename is the network node name of the workstation or X terminal
where you are typing.  On VMS systems, the equivalent command is:

	$ set display/create/node=devicename

To run NEdit, simply type "nedit", optionally followed by the name of a file or
files to edit.  Online help is available from the pulldown menu on the far
right of the menu bar.  For more information on the syntax of the nedit command
line, look under the heading of "NEdit Command Line."


PROBLEMS, QUESTIONS, COMMENTS:

	Mark Edel
	edel@fnal.gov
	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
	P.O. Box 500
	Batavia, IL 60148

Before reporting a problem, please check the Problems/Bugs section of the
online help to make sure the problem is not already known.