NEdit, the Nirvana editor, is a popular text editor and source code editor for the X Window System. It has an interface similar to text editors on Microsoft Windows and Macintosh, rather than to older UNIX editors like Emacs. It was initially developed by Mark Edel for Fermilab and released under a restricted licence, but today it is distributed under the GNU General Public License (plus Motif clause1), and developed as an independent open source project by a team of developers.
NEdit is extensible through a C-like macro language, and features automatic indentation and syntax highlighting for a wide variety of computer languages. Its user interface is made using the Motif toolkit. NEdit can also process tags files generated using the Unix ctags command or the Exuberant Ctags program.
NEdit看上去似乎更多地是为了那些编写代码的人而设计的,而不是用于编辑文章或者是粗浅的HTML页面。我没有发现任何
工具栏或者是单击的HTML代码编写按钮,也没有像拼写检查这样一个作者或者是编辑所需要的功能。
NEdit也有可记录的宏,这为它加了不少分,它的宏编写功能也非常强大。它的搜索和替换功能也很精密,这对于开发者来说也是很有意义的。我喜欢它的“Make Backup Copy”(制作备份拷贝)以及“Incremental Backup”(
增量备份)功能。而不能是用Home和End键来转到行首或者行尾,这让我感到确实还是Windows给我们带来的一个方便之处。
如果你想要找的是一些简洁而又功能强大的工具,NEdit会是一个不错的选择。如果NEdit是我唯一可用的工具的话,我想我还是能够用它来做很多我所需要的事。然而,现在有很多其它可用的
编辑器,它也就不会成为我所选择的工具了。