Appendix B. NEdit
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## Appendix B. NEdit

NEdit is a standard graphical user interface (GUI) text editor for programs and plain text files. This editor is the default text editor that runs on SGI workstations.

NEdit offers the following features:

- Provides standard menu, dialog, editing, and two-button mouse support.

- Offers standard keyboard shortcuts and menu accelerators.

- Any number of files can be open at the same time.

- Offers several methods for copying and moving text.

- Offers a search function that includes finding and replacing selectively, case-sensitive searching, use of regular expressions, and forward and backward searching.

- Allows you to shift blocks of text or align text.

- Offers a number of print options.

- Allows you to customize your editing environment through the use of the Preferences menu and through the use of macros. Advanced features include execution of UNIX shell commands from within NEdit.

- Offers special features for programmers, including indentation, matching characters, and the use of tags files.

To start NEdit, open the Find menu in the Toolchest, select Applications, and double click on the appropriate icon. To start the editor from a shell window, type the name of the editor (use all lowercase characters).

| Tip: When you run NEdit from a shell, you can run it in the background so that your cursor is returned to you. For example, to run NEdit in the background, enter `nedit&`

To find more information about the features of NEdit, click on the Help menu at the far right of the NEdit menu bar.

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