Motif (getting nedit to work with lesstif)

[Thomas Orgis]

Am Sun, 8 Mar 2009 11:24:06 +0100
schrieb Joerg Fischer <jf505 at gmx.de>: 

> Some time ago I tried to gather some background information on
> http://nedit.gmxhome.de/history.html

Hm, right, you are the guy who did the great LaTeX mode. I used that
happily before (p.ex. the auto-brackets), but for some reason didn't
bother to install it on my current system.
I must say that I like nedit but think that the macro system feels
clumsy.
The chance to mess up everything with one nedit.rc and many different
code in it, the ugly \n\ at every line end (like gcc inline assembly...
it looks so redundant)... but that really is another topic, and one
where you most probably disagree with me;-)

> Understanding the history of nedit, you'll see this was never a Linux
> project.

ACK.

Well, I'll give you a short update on the situation I have on Linux now:
I grabbed lesstif CVS, which in fact includes quite some fixes (for
64bit systems, copy 'n paste, some security issues), and can build that
with our patch to remove libXp usage.
Well, copy and paste works, but I have the feeling that menus are even
more messed up.
The X focus has funny behaviour when a menu pops up... they menus don't
react to the keybard (since they don't get proper focus, I guess.
And of course, the Menu->ESC crash is still there.
This mess has to be tackled before one can use nedit on a Free Linux
system again... but at least copy 'n paste works again.

Also, I've seen lesstif commits up to a year ago. So it's not _that_
dead and rotting.
There may be someone who could do a commit to fix things... but
apparently noone bothering to make releases or update the website.
Hm, reminds me a bit of nedit:-/


Alrighty then,

Thomas.
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