What is the status of NEdit 5.6?

[Tony Balinski]

Quoting "Paterline, David L." <paterldl at westinghouse.com>:

> If any?

>From what I gather, we were pretty well this close:
                       -> <-
to the "maintenance" release. I don't think there were
any show-stopper bugs to be handled. Thorsten was trying
to put together a mini-environment to give some more
involved macros than can be reasonably built into the
executable, to be delivered as an accompanying tarball
and to be unpacked into a new user's ~/.nedit/. Eddy
supplied the nedit.rc 5.5 - 5.6 upgrade code some time
ago.

Other than that, no executables for "the usual platforms"
have been built, since the code hasn't been sanctioned as
officially in beta. I wonder if anybody uses it. Those
who know where to find it have probably patched it into
an unrecognisable state (I know Thorsten has, as have I).
Certainly there's lots of good stuff in various people's
patches that's languishing in individuals' homespun
variants.

So what's left to do for 5.6? IMO label the source for
beta now and forget about the tarball, if that's all that's
holding us up. If I get my way, the macro language will
get a huge slew of extensions, so they will be out of date
PDQ! ;)

Tony