About NEdit

NEdit is a multi-purpose text editor for the X Window System, which combines a standard, easy to use, graphical user interface with the thorough functionality and stability required by users who edit text eight hours a day. It provides intensive support for development in a wide variety of languages, text processors, and other tools, but at the same time can be used productively by just about anyone who needs to edit text. NEdit, which is entirely a volunteer effort, benefits from a strong developer and user community. As of version 5.1, NEdit may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

NEdit was originally developed on a Unix system and is available on all major Unix and Linux systems. But NEdit can also run on other platforms, if there is a working X Window environment available. For instance, NEdit runs on MacOS X, OS/2 and MS Windows. The platforms and toolkit pages contain more details.

The current stable release of NEdit is version 5.5. Have a look at the feature list if you want to find out what NEdit can do for you. If you are familiar with NEdit, but you want to know what the latest release has to offer, check out the release notes. If you are convinced of NEdit's merits, you probably want to download it. If you want to participate in the discussion on NEdit's usage and development, consider joining one of the mailing lists. If you've encountered a problem or you think you've discovered a bug, read the trouble shooting page for suggestions.

NEdit news

2005-10-27 - Niki has been updated

Niki, the NEdit Wiki has been moved to the same server the NEdit website is on. In addition, the wiki software has been updated to include spam protection, and Niki has undergone a facelift. As a result, the wiki is now again open for public editing.

2004-10-13 - NEdit 5.5

The NEdit team is pleased to announce NEdit 5.5.

Improvements over NEdit 5.4 include:

• Tabbed windows for working with multiple documents in one window
• Find and Clear buttons for the interactive search bar
• Improved Latex & Python syntax highlighting patterns
• Simpler configuration for auto-scrolling
• Improvements to the macro language
• Efficiency improvements and bug fixes

Improvements over NEdit 5.5RC2 include:

• Detaching tabs should now use the default window size for the new window
• Detaching/moving non-top tab does not change top tab.
• Less confusing wording in the File->New XXX menu items

See the ReleaseNotes file (included in the distribution) for more details.

Executables for a variety of platforms can be downloaded over http or ftp. The source code is also available via http or ftp.

As always, we value your feedback. For that you can use the familiar mailing lists or the SourceForge bug tracker.

2004-09-03 - NEdit 5.5RC2

The NEdit team is pleased to announce the second release candidate for NEdit 5.5. Improvements over NEdit 5.5RC1 include:

• Fix for keyboard problems (PgUp and PgDown) on some platforms
• Regular expressions '<', '\B', and '>' are once again defined in terms of the user-defined word delimiter set
• Fixed mnemonics for "OK" buttons in dialogs
• Various fixes related to tabbed windows

Improvements over NEdit 5.4 include:

• Tabbed windows for working with multiple documents in one window
• Find and Clear buttons for the interactive search bar
• Improved Latex & Python syntax highlighting patterns
• Simpler configuration for auto-scrolling
• Improvements to the macro language
• Efficiency improvements and bug fixes

The source code can be downloaded over http or ftp. Executables for a variety of platforms can also be downloaded over http or ftp. See the ReleaseNotes file (included in the distribution) for more details. Since this is a release candidate, we hope to receive your feedback. For that you can use the familiar mailing lists or the SourceForge bug tracker.