Future of NEdit?

[Joerg Fischer]

Pieter Masereeuw wrote:

> - copy-paste between other apps and Nedit does not always work
> - sometimes Nedit becomes unexplainably slow
> - the open-file dialog is a bit clumsy.

Check Help -> Version and you're most likely to see Lesstif behind the
'With Motif:' part.  If you just want to have NEdit version 5.5, grab
the pre-built binary from nedit.org/ftp.  If you like the CVS version,
grab the sources (there is a daily snapshot on the ftp server) and
then unfortunately you also have to get the openmotif sources for
2.2.4 and build and install them on your system. Then, like on
commercial Unix, you can build NEdit and it'll have the same quality
as on Unix.

> I don't care what causes it (Motif, or whatever) I would favour a
> development where Nedit adapts itself to mainstream Unixes
> (including Linux).

Please notice Linux is just the name of one of the possible kernels of
a system called GNU, which stands for 'GNU is not Unix'.  NEdit uses
Motif which is part of a Unix system, but Motif isn't part of a GNU
system.  There is only the Motif clone Lesstif, which *can* be part of
a GNU system. (Open Motif can't be, because it's only freeware but not
free software.)  However, the main free toolkits that are part of GNU
systems are GTK and Qt. Needless to say that these toolkits needn't be
part of Unix systems.  Now, what adaption we're talking of?

NEdit was developed on, and is adapted to, Unix systems.  It uses
Motif.  The problems reported for Linux are at the core just a result
of this.  

Jörg