{"id":10185,"date":"2025-05-29T12:40:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/?page_id=10185"},"modified":"2025-05-29T12:47:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:47:44","slug":"xnedit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/software\/tools\/xnedit\/","title":{"rendered":"xnedit &#8211; a simple text editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recommend, to those users not familiar with Linux, that you use <code>xnedit<\/code> to create your batch submission scripts on the CSF. This is a simple text editor, very similar to Notepad on Windows. <\/p>\n<p>To use xnedit you will need to connect to the CSF with <a href=\"\/csf3\/getting-started\/connecting\/\">X11 functionality<\/a> enabled. If you have logged in using MobaXterm on Windows this will have been done automatically for you &#8211; proceed with the instructions below. If on MacOS-X or Linux, check you have <a href=\"\/csf3\/getting-started\/connecting\/linux-mac\/\">logged in correctly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To start xnedit, on the command line type<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n# On the login node\r\nxnedit &\r\n\r\n# Or on a compute node, in an interactive (srun-x11) session\r\nmodule load apps\/binapps\/xnedit\r\nxnedit &\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>(the <code>&<\/code> allows you to keep using the terminal\/command line) and you will get a pop up window in which you can create your script.<\/p>\n<p>When you save the file it will be saved on the <em>CSF<\/em> (i.e. it does not need uploading).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-content\/uploads\/xnedit-mobaxterm-new-file-red.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-content\/uploads\/xnedit-mobaxterm-new-file-red.png\" alt=\"xnedit launched from MobaXterm\" width=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-content\/uploads\/xnedit-mobaxterm-new-file-red.png 1501w, https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-content\/uploads\/xnedit-mobaxterm-new-file-red-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-content\/uploads\/xnedit-mobaxterm-new-file-red-1024x493.png 1024w, https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-content\/uploads\/xnedit-mobaxterm-new-file-red-768x369.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1501px) 100vw, 1501px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAn example of gedit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-content\/uploads\/xnedit-jobscript.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-content\/uploads\/xnedit-jobscript.png\" alt=\"xnedit main window\" width=\"822\" height=\"519\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-content\/uploads\/xnedit-jobscript.png 822w, https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-content\/uploads\/xnedit-jobscript-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-content\/uploads\/xnedit-jobscript-768x485.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you save the file it will be saved on the <em>CSF<\/em> (i.e. it does not need uploading)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recommend, to those users not familiar with Linux, that you use xnedit to create your batch submission scripts on the CSF. This is a simple text editor, very similar to Notepad on Windows. To use xnedit you will need to connect to the CSF with X11 functionality enabled. If you have logged in using MobaXterm on Windows this will have been done automatically for you &#8211; proceed with the instructions below. If on MacOS-X.. <a href=\"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/software\/tools\/xnedit\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":144,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10185","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10185"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10196,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10185\/revisions\/10196"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}