2. Introduction

JERED is a text editor for *nix systems based on the editor E for DOS and OS/2 from IBM. It was written because of the lack of Easy To Use text editors for *nix. It is not as powerful as Gnu Emacs nor VI, because it wasn't written with this goal and wasn't written by clever enough people, however it can handle most of your demands.

This program was first written on a Siemens/Nixdorf Targon 420 Risc/OS system, it looked like VI but was easier to use. Now, most of the developpments are done on Linux systems. I've tried to compile it on an HPUX system and it worked in about half an hour. However I can't access a SNI nor an HPUX system anymore so I'm only sure it works on Linux PC, Sparc, and Alpha.

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2.1 Overview

This editor provides many interesting possibilities:

• It is EASY TO LEARN AND TO USE
• You can edit several files at a time, switching from one to another
• Infos on the files being edited are always on the screen
• The user interface is easily configurable (colors, help, etc...)
• The C and C++ language syntax is highlighted
• Five languages are supported: English, French, Spanish, Finnish, and Russian
• You can record and play macros
• You can edit macros because they are text files too
• Most of the actions are available through an unique key
• All the keys are remappable to anything (text, actions, macros)
• The help is dynamically generated according to the key mappings
• Automatic save of modified files is available and configurable
• You can choose a locking method for our opened files
• Backup copies of saved files can be made
• Dynamic screen size recognition (xterm ...)

2.2 How to try JERED ?

To run this editor you must download the sources to your system, then you must install and compile them, then run the program, here is how to do:

1. Downloading: You can get JERED's sources from

   http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/editors/terminal

   or if you want THE LATEST version from

   http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/

2. Installing the Sources: You can copy the downloaded file on your system in the directory /usr/src then you must extract the sources from the archive, for example if you downloaded the file jered-1.6.5.tar.gz:

   tar -zxf jered-1.6.5.tar.gz
   

3. Compiling: In order to compile the sources you must go in the directory jered-1.6.5, just type:

   cd jered-1.6.5
   

   Then you must configure the makefile for your system:

   ./configure
   

   Then you run the compilation:

   make
   

   If you want you can install the executable plus profile files and macros:

   make install
   

4. Running: Simply type the following command:

   jered  file1  file2  ...   fileN