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XEDIT(1X11)             COMMAND REFERENCE             XEDIT(1X11)



NAME
     xedit - simple text editor for X

SYNOPSIS
     xedit [ -toolkitoption ...] [ filename ]

     This is a user-contributed client.

DESCRIPTION
     The editor provides a window consisting of the following
     three areas:

     Commands Menu       Lists editing commands (for example,
                         Undo or Search).

     Message Window      Displays xedit messages.  In addition,
                         this window can be used as a scratch
                         pad.

     Edit Window         Displays the text of the file that you
                         are editing or creating.

COMMANDS
     Quit      Quits the current editing session.  If any changes
               have not been saved, xedit displays a warning
               message and allows you to save the file.

     Save      Stores a copy of the original, unedited file in
               file.BAK. Then, overwrites the original file with
               the edited contents.

     Edit      Allows the text displayed in the Edit window to be
               edited.

     Load      Loads the specified file and displays it in the
               Edit window.

     Undo      Undoes the last edit only.

     More      Undoes each edit previous to the last edit, which
               must first be undone with the Undo command.

     Jump      Advances the cursor from the beginning of the file
               to the text line that corresponds to the selected
               line number.

     <<        Searches from the cursor back to the beginning of
               the file for the string entered in the Search
               input box.  If you do not enter a string in the
               Search input box, xedit automatically copies the
               last string that you selected from any X
               application into the Search input box and searches



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               for that string.

     Search >> Searches from the cursor forward to the end of the
               file for the string entered in the search input
               box.  If you do not enter a string in the Search
               input box, xedit automatically copies the last
               string that you selected from any X application
               into the Search input box and searches for that
               string.

     Replace   Replaces the last searched-for string with the
               string specified in the Replace input box.  If no
               string has been previously searched for, searches
               from the insert cursor to the end of the file for
               the next occurrence of the search string and
               highlights it.

     All       Repositions the cursor at the beginning of the
               file and replaces all occurrences of the search
               string with the string specified in the Replace
               input box.

OPTIONS
     The xedit editor accepts all of the standard X Toolkit
     command line options (see X(1x11)), plus the commands listed
     here.

     filename Specifies the file that is to be loaded during
              start-up.  This is the file which will be edited.
              If a file is not specified, xedit lets you load a
              file or create a new file after it has started up.

X DEFAULTS
     For xedit, the available class identifiers are:

     ButtonBox
     Command
     Scrollbar
     Text

     For xedit, the available name identifiers are:

     All
     Edit
     EditWindow
     Jump
     Load
     MessageWindow
     More
     Quit
     Replace
     Save



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     Undo
     xedit

     For xedit, the available resources are:

     EnableBackups  Specifies that, when edits made to an
                    existing file are saved, xedit is to copy the
                    original version of that file to file.BAK
                    before it saves the changes.  If the value of
                    this option is specified as off, a backup
                    file is not created.

     background     Specifies the background color to be
                    displayed in command buttons.  The default is
                    white.

     border         Specifies the border color of the xedit
                    window.

     borderWidth    Specifies the border width, in pixels, of the
                    xedit window.

     font           Specifies the font displayed in the xedit
                    window.

     foreground     Specifies the foreground color of the xedit
                    window.  The default is black.

     geometry       Specifies the geometry (window size and
                    screen location) to be used as the default
                    for the xedit window.  For information about
                    the format of the geometry specification, see
                    X(1x11).

     internalHeight Specifies the internal horizontal padding
                    (spacing between text and button border) for
                    command buttons.

     internalWidth  Specifies the internal vertical padding
                    (spacing between text and button border) for
                    command buttons.

KEY BINDINGS
     Each specification included in the .XtActions file modifies
     a key setting for the editor that xedit uses.  When defining
     key specifications, you must use the following resource
     specification:

     text.EventBindings:     .XtActions

     Each key specification assigns an editor command to a named
     key and/or mouse combination and has the format:



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     key: function

     key  Specifies the key or mouse button that is used to
          invoke the named function.

     function
          Specifies the function to be invoked when the named key
          is pressed.

     For more information about specifications in the .XtActions
     file, see X(1x11).

FILES
     ~/.XtActions

     /usr/lib/X11/.XtActions

CAVEATS
     Large numbers of certain edit functions (for example, Undo
     or More) tend to degrade performance over time.  If there is
     a noticeable decrease in response time, save and reload the
     file.

     It is not clear how to select a line number for the Jump
     command.

     The string searches don't work properly.

SEE ALSO
     X(1x11), xrdb(1x11)

























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