Future of NEdit?

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Joerg Fischer wrote:

> Please notice you're using a whole new Ubuntu system and all the
> difference to the former one isn't just that one came with lesstif and
> the other comes with openmotif.  The things you see are more likely
> caused by a switch to UTF-8.

I've been using this:

    LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
    GDM_LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
    XTERM_LOCALE=en_AU.UTF-8

for a number of years.

> Another guess is that a new X.org could also be the source of trouble.
> (If it isn't even something simple like the nedit package maintainer 
> on Ubuntu forgot to rebuild nedit with Open Motif.)

On Feisty, nedit is linked to lesstif and was stable. On Gutsy nedit
is linked to openmotif. Seeing that I immediately blamed openmotif.
However, if nedit was compiled against lesstif and when run linked 
against openmotif, all sorts of horrible stuff could happen.

To test this, I made sure that lesstif was not installed and recompiled
nedit from the ubuntu source package. This didn't help. Just like
before, I can get an immediate segfault doing:

    nedit this_file_does_not_exist

Erik
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