Future of Nedit for people who care about Free Software

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Hi all,

I've just spent the last 4-5 hours trying to get CVS Nedit to work
with CVS lesstif.

Although Nedit works acceptably well with lestif 0.93.94, the 
current CVS version is horribly broken. There are at least two 
segfaults that occur deep within libXt due to something that 
lesstif passes to Xt.

For me, that means that lesstif is too broken to fix.

Another option Openmotif, is not Free Software. Furthermore, on
32 bit Ubuntu Gutsy it produced the least stable Nedit I have used 
in over 12 years. Fixing OpenMotif is a possibility, but I am not 
going to spend my time fixing software that isn't Free Software.

The final option is pre-compiled binaries. This option brings me
right back to 1995 when using precompiled binaries was the only
way to get Nedit. So for now, I will grit my teeth and use the 
pre-compiled binaries while I look for an alternative editor.

In order to end on a positive note, I would like to thank all the
people who have contributed to Nedit over the years. Its been a 
fantastic tool which I have really enjoyed using.

Cheers,
Erik
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