nedit not part of RHEL5?

[Ryan Golhar]

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?
>