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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).
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Although new features are always under development, currently xed has:
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* Complete support for UTF-8 text
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* Syntax highlighting
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* Support for editing remote files
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* Search and Replace
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* Printing and Print Previewing Support
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* File Revert
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* A complete preferences interface
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* Configurable Plugin system, with optional python support
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Some of the plugins, packaged and installed with xed include, among others:
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* Word count
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* Spell checker
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* Change case of selected text
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* File Browser
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* Sort
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* Insert Date/Time
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* Tag list
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xed is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2, see
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the file 'COPYING' for more information.
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Installation
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Simple install procedure:
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% meson --prefix=/usr/local build # run the `configure' script
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% ninja -v -C build # build xed
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[ Become root if necessary ]
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% sudo ninja install -v -C build # install xed
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see linuxmint/xed#265 if you see GLib-GIO-ERROR
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