nedit not part of RHEL5?

[Andrew Bacchi]

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.

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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Andrew Bacchi
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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