nedit not part of RHEL5?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 08:56 -0400, Andrew Bacchi wrote:
> Yes, Eclipse is overkill, especially for Perl.  But, it has some nice 
> features and keeps my projects in order.
> 
> Good luck with whatever you decide.

How about gedit?  It's basically GNOME-ized nedit.

> 
> Ryan Golhar wrote:
> > Thanks.  All my RHEL3 machines have Nedit.  Maybe its from a 
> > subchannel that they are subscribed to.  I'll have to check that under 
> > RHEL5.
> >
> > Isn't eclipse overkill for a simple GUI text editor?  I always equated 
> > Nedit on Linux to TextPad on Windows.
> >
> >
> >
> > Andrew Bacchi wrote:
> >> I too am a long time Nedit user, and I really like the program.  I 
> >> don't recall seeing it in RH 3 or RH 4.  I've downloaded the source 
> >> file from and built it on those systems.  I tried building it on 
> >> Fedora, but there are some libraries that are missing and so I 
> >> haven't had any luck so far.
> >>
> >> The Nedit source has not been updated in ages, 2004,  and I don't 
> >> know if it will be maintained for newer Linux versions.  Too bad, I 
> >> really liked it.  I think I've already said that.  Anyway, there are 
> >> many other editors that you could substitute.  I've started using 
> >> Eclipse on RH 4 and Fedora, as my programming editor.
> >>
> >> Here's the link to the web site for the Nedit download.   
> >> http://www.nedit.org/
> >>
> >> Ryan Golhar wrote:
> >>> I just noticed that I can't find nedit on RHN for RHEL5.  Has nedit 
> >>> been removed?
> >>
> >
> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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