Re: launching a single instance of nedit for each text file

Actually, as a long-time nedit user I might want to chime in about these
"extras". They are awesome, and it's as simple as that.

One of these extras being allowing different fonts for highlighting with 4
different style of fonts. The big thing is that these fonts can be of
different size, and coupled with regular expressions my C-source code is a
lot more readable because of this (types and class names which start with
capital letters are now in huge fonts). And they look very stylish as well.

At my uni, everytime someone seems me coding, they always ask, what text
editor is that? They're always surprised to find out that it was nedit.

Granted, there's still a lot of the extras that I don't even know about (I
mean, I just knew about this nedit-nc thing recently, and I'll be
integrating that into my coding IDE). But eventually they get used. But
features such as rectangular select etc are useful themselves. And the macro
system has saved me so much time throughout the years.

To sum it up, nedit is awesome, and big kudos to the developers.

p.s what's the chances it'll be ported to windows? it's just the motif
library that's stopping that from happening isn't it?

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:02 AM, TK Soh <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Offer Kaye <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:53 AM, TK Soh  wrote:
> >>
> >> Can you give some scenario where you don't want to use nc?
> >
> > 1. If nedit server was not opened with -svrname, nc from separate Unix
> > desktops will all belong to the same nedit server and show up in the
> > Windows menu file list. Not a huge issue (solution is to *always* use
> > -svrname) but it can be annoying if you forget the flag and I'm not
> > sure how many people especially casual nedit users(*) are familiar
> > with -svrname.
> >
> > 2. In any situation when I would want to start a new seperate nedit
> > windows. Of course even with a merged binary this could be done with a
> > new nedit server but this depends on which options you would give to
> > this new merged binary. If you removed the "-server" flag and the only
> > behaviour would be "open new server if none exists otherwise use
> > existing one" this could become annoying as it would force me to use
> > only a single nedit window.
> >
> > (*) P.S. - I'm guessing most people on this list are not casual users
> > so perhaps you would have a hard time understanding this, but I know
> > many people who basically use NEdit as a Unix variant of Notepad and
> > have no idea about any of its abilities. Just as an example the other
> > day I showed someone who had been using NEdit for quite some time that
> > you could run a shell command such as "sort -u" or "grep" on a text
> > selection and he was amazed. These are not stupid people (engineers
> > mostly) but they just don't focus on nedit as an important tool to
> > study and understand. So probably for anyone on this list, using
> > "-svrname" is obvious and not an issue. However I strongly suspect
> > that most users do not even know of nedit command line flags and would
> > be bitten by any nedit issues for which the only solution would be to
> > use a command line flag.
>
> No offense. But I first reaction to your comment is "what a shame..."
>
> The developers spent a lot of effort putting in those 'extras', but
> all that the [casual] users need is a notepad.
>
> On the other hand, I suspect these users won't care much about what we
> are trying to do here either, as long as it remain [somewhat]
> transparent to them.
>
> > Regards,
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