asedit is an easy to use text editor for X Windows built around Motif text
widget. Version 1.2 features, amongst other things,
- Motif compliant menu interface
- (*) multiple editing windows
- easy to use "point and click" interface
- file selection via file selection dialog
- line and column numbers
- comprehensive context sensitive, hypertext on-line help
- multiple undo and redo of edit actions
- Cut/Copy/Paste features
- comprehensive search and replace
- keyboard bindings for EMACS's users
- automatic indentation for programmers
- (*) file insert functionality
- (*) customization via the standard X11/Motif resources method
including internationalization
- (*) read only mode to view files
- (*) Print dialog that allows:
(i) selection of a printer and using extra print options
(ii) selection of a print range (selected text only or
the complete document)
- (*) bookmarks (up to 10)
- (*) hot-keys for the most common edit features (based on CUA)
(*) - means a new or a strongly improved feature implemented in ver. 1.2
I have personally built and run the program on the following systems:
IBM RS/6000 AIX 3.1.x X11R3 Motif 1.0
IBM RS/6000 AIX 3.2.x X11R4 Motif 1.1.x
SGI IRIS Indigo IRIX 4.0.x X11R4 Motif 1.1.4
SGI IRIS Indigo IRIX 4.0.x X11R5 Motif 1.1.4
SUN 4 SunOS 4.1.2 X11R4 Motif 1.1.4
SUN 4 SunOS 4.1.2 X11R5 Motif 1.1.4
SUN 4 SunOS 4.1.2 X11R5 Motif 1.2.1
DEC 5000/240 ULTRIX 4.2 X11R5 Motif 1.1.3 (with XFOCUS_BUG on)
Although asedit runs even under X-Windows Release 3 and Motif 1.0
it can't possibly get around bugs in those versions and can't emulate
some other features used in newer versions. Incidentally, the help
file supplied describes all options available for X11R4/Motif 1.1
and upwards. Therefore, if you are still using Motif 1.0 and something
doesn't work as it should, I can be only sorry (I do NOT update
X11R3/Motif 1.0 specific code any more).
asedit is available by anonymous ftp from:
ftp.x.org (198.112.44.100) in /contrib/asedit-1.2.tar.Z
or in Europe from:
src.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.2.1) in /packages/X11-contrib/asedit-1.2.tar.Z
and from several other ftp sites.
Check your nearest using xarchie.
If you can't ftp, try sending email to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com with the
word "help" alone in your message body (in Europe you can use
ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk). You will receive instructions on how to ftp
via email.
See:
INSTALL for instructions on building & installing of asedit;
HISTORY if you update/would like to update from a previous version
of asedit (and would like to know what has changed);
COMMERCL.VER for information about an extended and performance orientated
commercial version of asedit.
Andrzej Stochniol (A.Stochniol@ic.ac.uk)
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