Future of NEdit?

[Andrew Hood]

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> For instance, changing from the Ubuntu Fiesty release to the newer
> Gutsy release meant a change from a nedit using lesstif on Feisty
> to OpenMotif on Gutsy. This was supposed to have been an improvement
> but I now see far more Nedit crashes in a week with OpenMotif than I 
> ever saw in a year with lesstif. These crashes are in the Motif
> libraries, so its not something than can be fixed by hacking on
> Nedit.

What version of OpenMotif comes with Gutsy? There are known issues in
OpenMotif 2.3.0 which are only fixed in CVS. One of these bites NEdit.

2.1.30 and 2.2.4 are OK. 2.3.0 has to be build from CVS, or NEdit
changed to work around the bug (you have to disable setting the font for
the active window tab to bold). No other versions are worth using.

On the whole, OpenMotif has fewer bugs than LessTif. I use NEdit on AIX,
Solaris, Linux (with 2.1.30, 2.2.4 and 2.3.0 CVS) and cygwin. The cygwin
version using LessTif is by far the worst to work with.

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