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General Information
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xed is a small and lightweight text editor.
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xed supports most standard editing features, plus several not found in your
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average text editor (plugins being the most notable of these).
Although new features are always under development, currently xed has:
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* Complete support for UTF-8 text
* Syntax highlighting
* Support for editing remote files
* Search and Replace
* Printing and Print Previewing Support
* File Revert
* A complete preferences interface
* Configurable Plugin system, with optional python support
Some of the plugins, packaged and installed with xed include, among others:
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* Word count
* Spell checker
* Change case of selected text
* File Browser
* Sort
* Insert Date/Time
* Tag list
xed is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2, see
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the file 'COPYING' for more information.
Installation
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Simple install procedure:
% meson --prefix=/usr/local build # run the `configure' script
% ninja -v -C build # build xed
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[ Become root if necessary ]
% sudo ninja install -v -C build # install xed
see linuxmint/xed#265 if you see GLib-GIO-ERROR