Future of NEdit?

[Lawrence Plug]

Hi- Another data point: I use the Ubuntu-packaged Open Motif 
nedit on Gutsy (64bit). I can't duplicate the "nedit 
this_file_does not exist" segfault. Overall nedit has been stable 
for me, much better than the ubuntu binary packages on Dapper and 
Breezy.

Lawrence


On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 10:53:40PM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> 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:
>