aXe is a simple to use text editor for X that represents a significant improvement over xedit. Also built around the Athena Text Widget it features, amongst other things,
- multiple windows
- multiple buffers
- default menu interface
- configurable menus
- optional configurable button interface
- minibuffer for expert use and access to external filters
- provision for defining a keyboard macro
- geometry specification and resizing in terms of characters
- file selection via a browser
- knowledge of line numbers
- parenthesis matching
- regular expression searching
- restricted or unlimited undo
- ability to change font
- easy entry of control codes
- xterm-like keymap feature
- easy runtime setting of selected preferences (resources)
- both brief and comprehensive (hypertext) on-line help
- server mode with cooperating client programs
- optional extension language using Tcl
- optional Xaw3d widget set compatability
- collection of reusable widgets that embody the functionality of aXe
I have personally built and run core aXe, i.e. without the Tcl and Xaw3d options, on the following systems:
Sun SPARC SunOS 4.1.x MIT X11R5 [cc/gcc] Sun SPARC SunOS 5.2 OpenWindows (with a struggle) [gcc] Encore Multimax UMAX 4.3 MIT X11R5 [cc] DEC 5000/120 ULTRIX 4.2 MIT X11R5 [gcc] HP 9000/710 HP-UX 9.01 Vendor's X11R5 plus Xaw/Xmu from LUCS [cc]
486 DX2/50 PC Linux 0.99.14 MIT X11R5 [gcc]
but not all have been subject to the same level of testing. I have only tested the Tcl and Xaw3d options on the first.
A number of '#ifdef SYSV'-isms that have been fed back to me have been incorporated into the code and a possible scandir replacement is provided for those systems that do not have one.
Although aXe will probably build under R4 run-time problems have been encountered in the past. I have not bothered to try this version under R4, and have not put any effort into solving previously known problems. Therefore, if you are at R4 you very much take pot luck.
aXe is available by anonymous ftp from ftp ftp.x.org (198.112.44.100) and arjuna.ncl.ac.uk (128.240.150.1) initially, and probably in due course from several other ftp sites. Check your nearest using xarchie.
If you can't ftp, try sending email to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com with the word "help" alone in your message body. You will receive instructions on how to ftp via email.
Jim
J.K.Wight@newcastle.ac.uk
Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Tel: +44 91 222 8238
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom. Fax: +44 91 222 8232