Editors

lpEdit

We have created an editor called *lpEdit’ that is based on QScintilla. Use the following pages are meant to help you get started with lpEdit.

• lpEdit
• Literate programming

What is an editor?

An editor is a text editor that is used to write computer code. If you do not already have a favorite text editor and we suggest lpEdit as it was written by our team and designed exactly for the purposes of literate programming. Another possible editor that may be useful are the we easy-to-use versions of Emacs. For Windows and GNU/Linux this is XEmacs and in the OS X world this is Aquamacs. There many are different editors available, just be sure that you understand the distinction between a text editor and a word processor before you select one. XEmacs and Aquamacs are free, open-source, stable and have all the same shortcuts that Windows and OS X users are accustomed to.

If you have the time and patience the official version of Emacs, although more difficult to use, is a more powerful text editor than the ported versions. The other commonly used text editor that like Emacs requires a bit of a learning curve is Vim. Any text editor will work for the examples provided on this site.

Downloads

• Windows users download XEmacs

• OS X users download Aquamacs

• Debian based distro users

  ~$ sudo apt-get install xemacs21
  

Documentation

• XEmacs documentation
• For Aquamacs there is a manual in the Help Menu and a wiki

Getting started

To create a new file click on buffers. Then click on Go To Buffer and enter the file name.