Nedit help

Andrew Hood ajhood at fl.net.au
Thu Aug 16 13:45:14 CEST 2007


Thayalakhandan, Khandan HS wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been using Nedit V 5.1 on SUN BLADE-2500 workstation. It works
> great. But when I double click on a file from the file manager it opens
> up the file in Nedit, as I configured. Now if I double click on the SAME
> file again, it opens up ANOTHER nedit window with the same file. Is
> there a way I could force it to go to the original Nedit window when I
> double click second time? I looked through .Xresources and .nedit files
> but can not figure out what feature to turn this behavior off. With our
> old workstations (HP-UX), it used to force the same window.

You probably should have the file manager configured to run nc rather
than nedit, and put:

nc.autoStart:   True

in ~/.Xdefaults (or whatever equivalent file Solaris is using).

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