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NAME

       aXe - an X editor

SYNOPSIS

       axe [ -toolkitoption ...] [ -option ... ] [ filename ... ] [ -buffer filename ...]

DESCRIPTION

       aXe is a simple to use text editor for X that represents a significant improvement over xedit. Also built
       around the Athena Text Widget it features, amongst other things,

          o multiple windows
          o multiple buffers
          o default menu interface
          o configurable menus
          o optional configurable button interface
          o minibuffer for expert use and access to external filters
          o provision for defining a keyboard macro
          o geometry specification and resizing in terms of characters
          o file selection via a browser
          o knowledge of line numbers
          o parenthesis matching
          o regular expression searching
          o restricted or unlimited undo
          o ability to change font
          o easy entry of control codes
          o xterm-like keymap feature
          o easy runtime setting of selected preferences (resources)
          o both brief and comprehensive (hypertext) on-line help
          o server mode with cooperating client programs
          o optional extension language using Tcl
          o optional Xaw3d widget set compatability
          o collection of reusable widgets that embody the functionality of aXe

       By default aXe provides a menu interface to some common Text Widget operations  and  most  of  its  extra
       features. An optional button interface, in which there is one button present for every static menu entry,
       can be selected via the keyword -buttons, or by setting the top level resource buttons.  A reduced button
       interface is configurable.

       Individual  file  names  on  the command line will be allocated to separate windows. A list of file names
       introduced by the keyword -buffer will be allocated to buffers belonging to the same  window  (an  older,
       still  supported  feature, enables the same to be achieved by quoting the list of names). Note that files
       destined for individual windows must precede those for buffers if the -buffer keyword is used. An initial
       number of windows to open can be specified on the command line by using the keyword -windows or by giving
       the top level resource windows a numeric value.  The value of windows is ignored if the  files  specified
       on the command line require more than that number of windows.

       If a top level geometry resource is provided, e.g. by using the toolkit keyword -geometry, then the width
       and height fields will be interpreted to mean the numbers of columns and rows respectively  that  editing
       widnows are to have.

       aXe  also  acts as a server of editing windows to cooperating clients.  Two, coaxe and faxe, are provided
       as part of the aXe suite. Server mode is the default, but can be switched off by using the  command  line
       keyword -noserver, or by setting the top level resource server False

       aXe has comprehensive on-line help, so, to avoid having to keep the information up to date in two places,
       it will not be duplicated here.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       That aXe makes use of code from Byron Rakitzis' rc command interpreter that is based  on  AT&T's  Plan  9
       shell of the same name is duly acknowledged.

SEE ALSO

       xedit(1), Athena Widget (Xaw) documentation

AUTHOR

       Jim Wight (j.k.wight@newcastle.ac.uk)
       Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU