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Install this package:

emerge -a app-editors/xwpe

Package Information

Description:

xwpe (the X Windows Programming Environment) is a programming and text editor in the style of the Borland Turbo C IDE of the early 1990s, written by Fred Kruse in 1993, maintained by Dennis Payne from 2000 to 2006, and revived in 2026. A single binary runs in the console (wpe/we, ncurses) or under X11 (xwpe/xwe, anti-aliased Xft/Cairo, UTF-8). It pairs a syntax-highlighting editor with a Borland-style menu and dialog system, project management, multi-language compiler integration and source-level debugging (gdb/jdb/pdb), plus LSP and DAP clients.

Homepage:

https://codeberg.org/mendezr/xwpe

License:

GPL-2

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Metadata

Description

• xwpe (the X Windows Programming Environment) is a programming and text editor in the style of the Borland Turbo C IDE of the early 1990s, written by Fred Kruse in 1993, maintained by Dennis Payne from 2000 to 2006, and revived in 2026. A single binary runs in the console (wpe/we, ncurses) or under X11 (xwpe/xwe, anti-aliased Xft/Cairo, UTF-8). It pairs a syntax-highlighting editor with a Borland-style menu and dialog system, project management, multi-language compiler integration and source-level debugging (gdb/jdb/pdb), plus LSP and DAP clients.

Maintainers

• Juan Manuel Méndez Rey (juan.mendezr@proton.me) - Type: person

Upstream

• Remote IDs:
  • codeberg: mendezr/xwpe

<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="person">
		<email>juan.mendezr@proton.me</email>
		<name>Juan Manuel Méndez Rey</name>
	</maintainer>
	<longdescription lang="en">
		xwpe (the X Windows Programming Environment) is a programming and text
		editor in the style of the Borland Turbo C IDE of the early 1990s,
		written by Fred Kruse in 1993, maintained by Dennis Payne from 2000 to
		2006, and revived in 2026. A single binary runs in the console
		(wpe/we, ncurses) or under X11 (xwpe/xwe, anti-aliased Xft/Cairo,
		UTF-8). It pairs a syntax-highlighting editor with a Borland-style menu
		and dialog system, project management, multi-language compiler
		integration and source-level debugging (gdb/jdb/pdb), plus LSP and DAP
		clients.
	</longdescription>
	<use>
		<flag name="gui">Build the X11 front-end (xwpe/xwe) with Xft/Cairo/Pango rendering; the terminal editor (wpe/we) is always built</flag>
	</use>
	<upstream>
		<remote-id type="codeberg">mendezr/xwpe</remote-id>
	</upstream>
</pkgmetadata>

Lint Warnings

• [Warning] Ebuild 1.6.9 has a line exceeding 80 positions on line 6.
• [Warning] Ebuild 1.6.9 has a line exceeding 80 positions on line 37.
• [Warning] Ebuild 1.6.9 has a line exceeding 80 positions on line 41.
• [Warning] USE flag 'gpm' in ebuild 1.6.9 is not documented in metadata.xml
• [Notice] Package has only unstable keywords for arch(es): [ amd64, x86 ], all versions are unstable: [ 1.6.9 ]

USE Flags

Manage flags for this package: euse -i <flag> -p app-editors/xwpe | euse -E <flag> -p app-editors/xwpe | euse -D <flag> -p app-editors/xwpe

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