Editor exaEdit
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Downloading the source program of exaEdit

Prerequisites

Requirements for producing the editor exaEdit from the source program:

• You have (installed) in your operating system a C-compiler. In most cases the make files assume that it is the GNU-C-compiler gcc. An exception is Windows where the make file invokes the C-compiler of Microsoft Visual Studio. Usually you could use any (?) C-compiler.

• Your operating system contains the Curses library which is used by exaEdit for the dialogue with the user. This library is part of all Unix systems and most Linux systems. Where necessary you may install it yourself in your Linux system.

  In Windows there is no such library. PDCurses is used instead. Therefore, if you want to produce exaEdit for Windows you must provide PDCurses before. There is no need, however, to compile exaEdit for Windows by yourself because the editor is identical for all versions of Windows (starting with Windows NT). If you still are interested in doing it please contact the author of the editor.

• You have downloaded the source program.

• You have downloaded or prepared by yourself the make file for your desired operating system.

Producing the editor exaEdit

Download the make file for your operating system:

Only for AIX und Linux: If source program and make file are located in the same directory then choose the right value for system (l32, lin or aix), execute the command

   make -f system-make VER=02d

and get thus the new editor under the name system-exa02d. Finally you may rename and move around the new editor as you like (in Linux for example to /usr/local/bin/). In any case you should make sure that the editor is marked executable. If not then execute for the editor exa in its directory the command chmod +x exa).

Language versions

As a matter of course you can do it with exaEdit. If you decide to do this in the binary program then you should do the following:

1. Start exaEdit without specifying a file.
2. Execute the command width 60.
3. Load with the command load the editor as a file.
4. Locate the character string lAnG1. If it cannot be found then it is part of two consecutive lines. In that case repeat the procedure from step 1 with width 50 instead of width 60 or another suitable value.
5. Replace lAnG1 by lAnG2.
6. Execute the command file, which writes back the changed editor.

If you have any questions on exaEdit (features, installation, usage, documentation, errors etc.), please feel free to contact Peter Preus, the author of exaEdit, perhaps by E-Mail.

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