Future of NEdit?

[Duane Clark]

Joerg Fischer wrote:
> 
> Btw, I'm still here to share what I know about nedit with other users.
> I'm not worried about how many folks still use nedit. 

I recognize there is no obligation for you or any other developers to 
continue to support nedit. And in fact, I suspect some of the new 
problems (such as the ones I am hitting) are bugs in the 
openmotif/lesstif libraries due to changes in X, not nedit.

Of course, this is probably why the subject line is "Future of NEdit?" 
with that question mark.

Perhaps openmotif will eventually catch up (though I have my doubts - F7 
has been out quite awhile), but lesstif appears to be mostly comatose.

> Also, there are
> so many Linux distributions[1] that I can't know about problems on
> some specific Linux system.

I doubt most bugs are distribution dependent, except to the extent that 
they are running different kernel, X, motif/lesstif versions. If someone 
were to take an interest in preemptively fixing things on Linux, picking 
a single cutting edge beta Linux system, including a cutting edge 
linuxfromscratch system, would probably be sufficient to get most bugs 
before they hit ordinary users.