Future of NEdit?

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Andrew Hood wrote:

> What version of OpenMotif comes with Gutsy?

Version 2.2.3. I've also checked to ubuntu+1 and upsteam Debian
for more recent packages. Unfortunately there are none on offer.

> 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.

But 2.2.3 is really horribly broken.

I have at least two little recipes for causing instantaneous crashes.
Thats particularly troublesome when using nedit-nc like I do. These
are things I hit all the time have t conciously avoid doing (like
doing nedit-nc -noash file_does_not_exist) to start work on a new
file.

I've also had another instance where the text in the editor itself 
was corrupted with random garbage, but I've only seen this once.

> 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.

Sorry, that does not coincide with my experience. I have been using
Nedit linked to lesstif from Debian or Ubuntu for the bext part
of ten years. The recent nedit linked to OpenMotif has been by
far the worst I've ever used.

Erik
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