anybody using nedit?

[Patrick Nelson]

Terry Barnaby wrote:

> Ian Pilcher wrote:
>
>> Marius Andreiana wrote:
>>
>>> Does anybody use nedit in fedora? Maybe this can be moved to extras.
>>>
>>> The command line to start it is "nc", same as nc for netcat and almost
>>> same as mc for midnight commander.
>>>
>>
>> I use it all the time.  I haven't found anything else that is as light-
>> weight (no KDE or Gnome overhead), intuitive (straightforward menus),
>> and functional (decent syntax highlighting, good translation between
>> user-defined and hardware tabs).
>>
>> It lacks the anti-aliased fonts of more modern editors, but a well
>> designed bitmap font is arguably better for a text editor anyway.
>>
>> My only real complaint is the lack of UTF-8 support.  It wasn't such a
>> problem until I married a Peruvian.
>>
>
> I am another dedicated nedit user. We use it as our main development 
> editor. It is quick and simple. Although we have made our own shell
> script "be" to get around the problem of the "nc" front end clashing
> with the netcat one.
>
> Terry
>
Yep me to...  We use it as the main dev editor as well and used a 
similar script to get around nc.