FC6, NVidia and Nedit

[Jim Wilson]

Thorsten Haude wrote:

> So your treasured editor is, what, Emacs?

Once I tried to learn Emacs, but quickly bogged down.  It was far too
complicated for a simple mind like mine.

> Just to clear that up: This is only a visual effect? The documents are
> as you expect them to be?

Yes.  I can restore the display by minimizing and re enlarging nedit's
window.  Strangely, burying nedit beneath other windows and digging it
back up leaves the display corrupted.

> Any chance of binary mixup? Could you send us 'nedit -V' for both
> versions?

Anything is possible.  I exorcised the Fedora version with "rpm -e ...".
 The screenshots were generated with:

NEdit 5.5
Sep 30, 2004

     Built on: Linux, 386, GNU C
     Built at: Oct  1 2004, 15:55:40
   With Motif: 2.1.30 [@(#)Motif Version 2.1.30]
Running Motif: 2.1 [unknown]
       Server: The X.Org Foundation 70101000
       Visual: 32-bit TrueColor (ID 0x104)
       Locale: en_US.iso885915

I notice the Locale is set to some crazy value, but (following the
admonition on nedit.org), I earlier set "export LANG=en_US" (in lieu
absence of any other recommendations), and the same display corruption
occurred.

Let me reinstall the FC6 version.....

Hm...  Although I was sober when I tested earlier, now when I run
"/usr/bin/nedit <myfile>", it segfaults!  Apparently, I was running the
nedit.org version.  I did have to clean out nedit 5.5RC1 to make way for
real 5.5.

Examining my PATH, I see the old nedit 5.5RC1 (official) version would
have been preferred over the FC6 distro version all along.  It must have
shielded me from the nastier bug.

FYI, invoked "/usr/bin/nedit -V", the Fedora version reports:

NEdit 5.5
Sep 30, 2004

     Built on: Linux, 386, GNU C
     Built at: Sep  2 2006, 09:29:29
   With Motif: 2.1.0 [@(#)GNU/LessTif Version 2.1 Release 0.95.0] (UNTESTED)
Running Motif: 2.1 [unknown]
       Server: The X.Org Foundation 70101000
       Visual: 24-bit TrueColor (ID 0x21, Default)
       Locale: en_US.iso885915

"export LANG=en_US" doesn't seem to help the segfault situation.

Jim