Future of NEdit?

[Duane Clark]

Joerg Fischer wrote:
> 
> 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.

Unfortunately, as I mentioned, with recent versions of Linux (at least 
64 bit Fedora 7, which is what I am running), statically linking against 
openmotif no longer works.

A couple data points... I have nedit running on FC 4 linked to 
openmotif, where it run flawlessly. But if I remotely display that onto 
my Fedora 7 64 bit system, it crashes upon copy/paste. And versions of 
nedit statically linked on other systems and run locally on F7 also do 
not work. These symptoms imply to me that an incompatibility has been 
introduced into the X server, perhaps in the port to 64 bits.

And on the F7 system, a locally compiled and run version of nedit 
against openmotif also does not work. Basically, I am stuck using 
lesstif, until someone with a lot more knowledge than me fixes something.