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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 a Linux system on a 486. 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 and Alpha.

You can subscribe to JERED's mailing list going to: http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome/jered/subscribe.html

You can consult JERED's mailing list archives (begin October 1st 1998) at: http://cortex.unice.fr/jered

You can Unsubscribe from JERED's mailing list going to: http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome/jered/unsubscribe.html

2.1 Overview

This editor provides many interesting possibilities:

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://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome/jered/jered-latest.tar.gz
  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
    


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