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SXEDIT(1)  —  NEWS-OS Programmer’s Manual

NAME

sxedit − NEWS Desk desktop tool, text editor

SYNOPSIS

sxedit [−toolkitoption ...] [−file file_name]

DESCRIPTION

The sxedit program is a tool for creating and editing text based files that runs on X. 
For detailed usage instructions, refer to Vol. 1 of the NEWS Desk User’s Guide in the NEWS-OS manual set.

OPTIONS

In addition to all the standard X Toolkit commands, sxedit also accepts the following options. 

−file file_name
When this option is used, the specified file is opened, ready to be edited. If the option is not used, the program reverts to the mode for creating a new, unnamed text file.

RESOURCES

In addition to the resources defined by the widgets used by sxedit, the following are defined by the application itself. 

backup_dir (class BackupDir)
Should a fatal error occur inside ,BR sxedit , the program terminates automatically. Should this happen, the data which was being edited is saved to the directory specified by this resource. The default is /usr/tmp.

MULTI LANGUAGE SUPPORT

Japanese (Shift-JIS/EUC), Korean (EUC) and English (ISO 8859-1) are supported. 

FILES

/usr/lib/X11/sx/sxedit
/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/SXedit
/usr/lib/X11/ja_JP.SJIS/app-defaults/SXedit
/usr/lib/X11/ja_JP.EUC/app-defaults/SXedit
/usr/lib/X11/ko_KR.EUC/app-defaults/SXedit

SEE ALSO

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NEWS Desk User’s Guide Vol. 1

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 Sony Corporation

NEWS-OSRelease 4.1C

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