Re: Configuration issues

Andrew Hood <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:30:03 +1100
Newsgroups gmane.editors.nedit.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mike B. wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Thanks everyone for replying to my earlier post.
> 
> I'm gradually learning my way around Nedit and would appreciate help with these two issues:
> 
> 1. Is there a complete list of all the configuration resources? there
> are some scattered on different pages at the Nedit wiki
> (http://nedit.hackvalue.nl/niki) but it looks like bits and pieces.

Do you mean stuff that goes in nedit.rc and and other macro files which
is pretty much complete in the builtin help, or X resources which are
lightly documented in Niki and need somewhat of an understanding of the
deep magic that is ~/.Xdefaults.

> 2. How do I transfer my Nedit settings from one account to another?
> the man pages recommend not to edit the nedit.rc manually since it
> will be over-written. So if I have Nedit on another account I have to
> manually enter all my settings all over again?.

Just create the ~/.nedit directory if it does not exist (it will if you
have already run NEdit) and copy nedit.rc from the existing account to
there.

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