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NEdit was perfect when I was transitioning from Windows to Linux in the late 90s early 2000s. It was even in Slackware.

Also, I miss the large clear, 16/256 color icons from the win 3.0 and 1990's unix era.

NEdit was my main editor for a few years after I started using UNIX in the late 90s but couldn't get the hang of vi and emacs. I have fond memories of using it and I'm pretty sad that it was so tied to Motif that it never developed further. I used it on Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and even Windows (via Cygwin). I kind of miss using an editor so uncomplicated.

Wouldn't gedit do this today? It looks like gedit works on Windows too:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit#Installation

Many thanks. I did use gedit for a while, though I confess I never became as fond of it as I had been of NEdit. It does tick the "uncomplicated text editor" box though.

https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1920644

and

https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Solaris-8

Change the GTK settings as always. Or use lxappearance.

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