asedit is a simple to use ASCII text editor for X build around Motif Text
widget.  It features, amongst other things,

  - Motif compliant menu interface
  - easy to use "point and click" interface
  - file selection via file selection dialog
  - line and column numbers
  - comprehensive context sensitive, hypertext on-line help
  - multiple undo and redo edit actions
  - Cut/Copy/Paste features
  - comprehensive search and replace
  - keyboard bindings for EMACS's users
  - automatic indentation for programmers
  - customization via the standard X11/Motif resources method


I have personally built and run the program on the following systems:

   IBM RS/6000		AIX 3.1.x	X11R3	Motif 1.0
   IBM RS/6000		AIX 3.2  	X11R4	Motif 1.1
   SGI IRIS Indigo      IRIX 4.0.x	X11R4	Motif 1.1.4
   SGI IRIS Indigo      IRIX 4.0.x	X11R5	Motif 1.1.4
   SUN 4                SunOS 4.1.2     X11R4   Motif 1.1.4
   SUN 4                SunOS 4.1.2     X11R5   Motif 1.1.4
   DEC 5000/240         ULTRIX 4.2      X11R5   Motif 1.1.3 (with XFOCUS_BUG on)


Although asedit runs even under X-Windows Release 3 and Motif 1.0
it can't possibly get around bugs in those versions and can't emulate
some other features used in newer versions. Incidentally, the help
file supplied describes all options available for X11R4/Motif 1.1
and upwards. Therefore, if you are still using Motif 1.0 and something
doesn't work as it should, I can be only sorry (I do NOT update
X11R3/Motif 1.0 specific code any more).


asedit is available by anonymous ftp from:
    export.lcs.mit.edu (18.24.0.12)  in  /contrib/asedit.tar.Z
    or in Europe from:
    src.doc.ic.ac.uk   (146.169.2.1) in  /packages/X11-contrib/asedit.tar.Z
and from several other ftp sites.
Check your nearest using xarchie.

If you can't ftp, try sending email to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com with the
word "help" alone in your message body (in Europe you can use 
ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk).  You will receive instructions on how to ftp 
via email.

See:
     INSTALL for instructions on building & installing of asedit;
     HISTORY if you update/would like to update from a previous version
             of asedit.
 
Performance note:
	A fast, performance orientated, version of asedit is available only 
	commercially. It is 2 - 3 times faster for files of size 40 - 120 kB
	(for bigger files the speed increase is bigger).
	The commercial version will be shortly iternationalized for some
	single byte represented languages.


Andrzej
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A.Stochniol@ic.ac.uk
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology
and Medicine, London, SW7 2BX, UK.

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