xedit is a text editor for the X Window System. It uses the Athena (Xaw) widget toolkit.
Originally written during the days of the MIT X Consortium (late in 1987) by Chris D. Peterson, it was relatively untouched until the late 1990s. The current version of xedit was modified by Paulo César Pereira de Andrade beginning in 2001 for XFree86 to include a Lisp interpreter used as a calculator. At the same time, he also made supporting changes to Xaw. This version of xedit also provides simple formatting, indenting and spell-checking (through an interface to ispell).