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75 lines
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# Xed Text Editor
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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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* Change Case
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* Document Statistics
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* File Browser
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* Indent Lines
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* Insert Date/Time
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* Modelines
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* Save Without Trailing Spaces
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* Sort
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* Spell checker
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* Tag list
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* Word Completion
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## Installation
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```
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1. run the 'configure' script
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# meson --prefix=/usr build
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2. build xed
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# ninja -v -C build
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3. install xed
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# sudo ninja install -v -C build
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** Build Instructions for Debian-based distros **
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1. run "dpkg-buildpackage" from the xed base directory
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2. cd ..
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3. run
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# sudo dpkg -i *.deb
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4. From then, any new changes can be applied by running
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# sudo ninja -C debian/build install
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```
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### Xed look and feel
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##### Classic Mode
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##### Theme selections
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##### Search and Replace feature
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##### Select from several languages in Highlight syntax mode
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##### Xed Shortcuts
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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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