<s>
NEdit	B-Application
,	O
the	O
Nirvana	B-Application
editor	I-Application
,	O
is	O
a	O
text	B-Application
editor	I-Application
and	O
source	B-Application
code	I-Application
editor	I-Application
for	O
the	O
X	B-Operating_System
Window	I-Operating_System
System	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
has	O
an	O
interface	O
similar	O
to	O
text	B-Application
editors	I-Application
on	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
and	O
Macintosh	B-Device
,	O
rather	O
than	O
to	O
older	O
UNIX	B-Application
editors	O
like	O
Emacs	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
initially	O
developed	O
by	O
Mark	O
Edel	O
for	O
Fermilab	O
and	O
released	O
under	O
a	O
very	O
restrictive	O
licence	O
,	O
but	O
today	O
it	O
is	O
distributed	O
under	O
the	O
less	O
restrictive	O
GPL-2.0-or-later	B-License
(	O
plus	O
Motif	B-Application
clause	O
)	O
and	O
is	O
developed	O
as	O
an	O
independent	O
open-source	B-Application
project	O
by	O
a	O
team	O
of	O
developers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Nedit	B-Application
was	O
also	O
distributed	O
with	O
the	O
IRIX	B-Operating_System
operating	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NEdit	B-Application
is	O
extensible	O
through	O
a	O
C-like	O
macro	O
language	O
,	O
and	O
it	O
features	O
automatic	O
indentation	O
and	O
syntax	O
highlighting	O
for	O
a	O
wide	O
variety	O
of	O
computer	B-Language
languages	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
NEdit	B-Application
can	O
also	O
process	O
tags	O
files	O
generated	O
using	O
the	O
Unix	B-Application
ctags	B-Device
command	O
or	O
the	O
Exuberant	B-Device
Ctags	I-Device
program	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
user	O
interface	O
is	O
built	O
using	O
the	O
Motif	B-Application
toolkit	I-Application
,	O
which	O
made	O
it	O
an	O
immediate	O
success	O
with	O
a	O
wide	O
range	O
of	O
Unix	B-Application
platforms	O
whose	O
user	O
interfaces	O
use	O
that	O
toolkit	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
a	O
fully	O
open	O
source	O
version	O
,	O
the	O
alternative	O
LessTif	B-Application
library	O
could	O
be	O
used	O
instead	O
,	O
but	O
more	O
recently	O
the	O
main	O
Motif	B-Application
toolkit	I-Application
was	O
made	O
open	O
source	O
as	O
well	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Major	O
development	O
on	O
SourceForge	B-Application
stopped	O
in	O
2010	O
,	O
with	O
minor	O
updates	O
being	O
made	O
as	O
recently	O
as	O
February	O
2017	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
According	O
to	O
the	O
project	O
's	O
the	O
source	O
repository	O
has	O
been	O
converted	O
from	O
CVS	B-Application
to	O
Git	B-Application
in	O
September	O
2014	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
code	O
is	O
based	O
on	O
what	O
was	O
in	O
the	O
Debian	O
NEdit	B-Application
package	O
for	O
some	O
time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
From	O
2018	O
,	O
development	O
continued	O
on	O
GitHub	B-Application
in	O
the	O
form	O
of	O
XNEdit	O
,	O
a	O
fork	O
of	O
NEdit	B-Application
version	O
5.7	O
.	O
</s>
