Configuration issues

[Mike B.]

Hi All,

Thanks everyone for replying to my earlier post.

I'm gradually learning my way around Nedit and would appreciate help with these two issues:

1. Is there a complete list of all the configuration resources? there are some scattered on different pages at the Nedit wiki (http://nedit.hackvalue.nl/niki) but it looks like bits and pieces.

2. How do I transfer my Nedit settings from one account to another? the man pages recommend not to edit the nedit.rc manually since it will be over-written. So if I have Nedit on another account I have to manually enter all my settings all over again?.

Seasons's greetings,
Mike.

[Andrew Hood]

Post by Mike B.
Hi All,
Thanks everyone for replying to my earlier post.
1. Is there a complete list of all the configuration resources? there
are some scattered on different pages at the Nedit wiki
(http://nedit.hackvalue.nl/niki) but it looks like bits and pieces.

Do you mean stuff that goes in nedit.rc and and other macro files which
is pretty much complete in the builtin help, or X resources which are
lightly documented in Niki and need somewhat of an understanding of the
deep magic that is ~/.Xdefaults.

Post by Mike B.
2. How do I transfer my Nedit settings from one account to another?
the man pages recommend not to edit the nedit.rc manually since it
will be over-written. So if I have Nedit on another account I have to
manually enter all my settings all over again?.

Just create the ~/.nedit directory if it does not exist (it will if you
have already run NEdit) and copy nedit.rc from the existing account to
there.

[Offer Kaye]

Post by Andrew Hood

Post by Mike B.
2. How do I transfer my Nedit settings from one account to another?
the man pages recommend not to edit the nedit.rc manually since it
will be over-written. So if I have Nedit on another account I have to
manually enter all my settings all over again?.

Just create the ~/.nedit directory if it does not exist (it will if you
have already run NEdit) and copy nedit.rc from the existing account to
there.

To further clarify, your NEdit settings will only be overridden when
you do from inside NEdit Preferences->Save Defaults...->OK

Regards,
Offer Kaye

[Mike B.]

Hi Andrew,

Post by Andrew Hood
Do you mean stuff that goes in nedit.rc and and other macro
files which is pretty much complete in the builtin help, or X resources
which are lightly documented in Niki and need somewhat of an
understanding of the deep magic that is ~/.Xdefaults.

I'm referring to resources that go into .Xdefaults. Is there a complete list of them with explanation what each of them does?.

Greetings,
Mike.

[Andrew Hood]

Post by Mike B.
Hi Andrew,

Post by Andrew Hood
Do you mean stuff that goes in nedit.rc and and other macro
files which is pretty much complete in the builtin help, or X resources
which are lightly documented in Niki and need somewhat of an
understanding of the deep magic that is ~/.Xdefaults.

I'm referring to resources that go into .Xdefaults. Is there a complete list of them with explanation what each of them does?.

The best answer is probably "Use the source, Luke". The default values
for non-standard X resources are listed in source/nedit.c

Please remember that NEdit requires a good Motif implementation. I have
never had a problem with AIX, HP-UX or Solaris. Cygwin + LessTif sort of
works on Windows. Some versions of LessTif work on Linux. OpenMotif
works more reliably except for versions 2.2.0 thru 2.2.2.

I built with OpenMotif 2.3.1 statically linked because my Linux includes
a known to be broken version of LessTif.

Andrew

[Aaron W. Hsu]

Post by Mike B.
Is there a complete list of all the configuration resources? there are
some scattered on different pages at the Nedit wiki
(http://nedit.hackvalue.nl/niki) but it looks like bits and pieces.

It is not complete but all of the NEdit specific resource settings are
documented in

Help -> Customizing -> X Resources

Motif resources are documented in the Motif Reference Manual. You can use
editres to see what the inheritance for each widget in NEdit is.

X resources are documented in the X Windows server manuals.

Aaron W. Hsu