Tag Archives: Motif

Time to update older UI toolkits?

My favorite editor of choice for the past 10 years has been nedit, it is a wonderfully simple yet complete GUI-based text editor with a focus on development. It has all of the basics that I need; syntax highlighting, relatively smart indenting, brace matching, the ability to highlight an include and open the file it refers to. All of the basics are there, so as an editor it suits my needs and development habits. There is only one thing, it's ugly. And this is no fault of the developers, it's the fault of how Motif looks.

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