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- From: J.K.Wight@newcastle.ac.uk (Jim Wight)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: What is aXe?
- Message-ID: <Bx98JE.GzF@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 17:57:14 GMT
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- djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (X X) writes:
-
- >before I download aXe, I would like a description of what it actually is.
- >Im hoping its a wyswig word processor program.
-
- It is an X Editor. Here is some information about it.
- - - -
-
- 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,
-
- o multiple windows
- o multiple buffers
- o default menu interface
- o optional button interface, with choice and layout of buttons
- under user control
- o minibuffer for expert use and access to external filters
- o provision for defining a keyboard macro
- o geometry specification and resizing in terms of characters
- o file selection via a browser
- o knowledge of line numbers
- o parenthesis matching
- o ability to change font
- o easy entry of control codes
- o xterm-like keymap feature
- o easy runtime setting of selected preferences (resources)
- o server mode
- o both brief and comprehensive on-line help
- o collection of reusable widgets that embody the functionality of aXe
-
- I have personally built and run the current version of aXe on the
- following systems:
-
- Sun 3 SunOS 4.1.1 MIT X11R4
- Sun 4 SunOS 4.1.[12] MIT X11R5
- Encore Multimax UMAX 4.3 MIT X11R5
- DEC 5000/120 ULTRIX 4.2 MIT X11R5
- HP 9000/710 HP-UX 8.07 MIT X11R5
-
- The previous version reportedly also ran on SGI IRIX 4.0.1, IBM RS6000
- AIX 3.1.5/3.2 and Linux.
-
- Although aXe runs under R4 in the case cited above I have failed to
- get it to work on an Acorn R260 running RISC iX 1.21. Therefore, if
- you are at R4 you very much take pot luck. If it doesn't work the only
- alternative is to try the last release, 2.1.1, of version 2 which
- should still be around. It doesn't have as many features and uses the
- Widget Creation Library (Wcl). Not only that, it requires an old
- version of Wcl, 1.06 or 1.05. Version 3 of aXe was nearing completion
- when version 2 of Wcl came out so aXe 2 never got converted to make
- use of it.
-
- I have no experience of porting to System V, but I have incorporated a
- number of '#ifdef SYSV'-isms that have been fed back to me.
-
- aXe is available by anonymous ftp from export.lcs.mit.edu (18.24.0.12)
- 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
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