Note: This page is about the X Window System xedit editor. For the VM/CMS visual editor, see XEDIT.

xedit is a text editor for the X Window System. It uses the Athena (Xaw) widget set.

Originally written during the days of the MIT X Consortium (late in 1987 by Chris D. Peterson, it was relatively untouched until the late 1990's. The current version of xedit was modified by Paulo César Pereira de Andrade beginning in 2001 for XFree86 to include a lisp interpreter used as a calculator. At the same time, he also made supporting changes to Xaw. This version of xedit also provides simple formatting, indenting and spell-checking (through an interface to ispell).

References

External links

• manual page for xedit
• Git web interface for xedit
• xedit source code releases