Dead end?

[Thomas Orgis]

Am Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:13:49 +0100
schrieb Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum at orgis.org>: 
 
> Hi folks,

Sorry, that has been sent prematurely. I startet writing a grave speech
for my nedit usage on linux, due to the neverending trouble with
lesstif. Then I saw a comment on the ESC-menu crash on the lesstif
tracker that showed a hack for that one bug. Then I saw that in xpdf
you still have a similar crash with it's menu. Then I observed again
the focus issues lesstif has (keyboard focus seems to be sort of
random, and generally the control of menus is weird... navigation is
fine, but enter key without function).

I also saw that the folks over at debian don't seem to be overly
concerned about these issues (a fresh sidux install showed the same
focus weirdness, almost certainly the ESC-menu crash, but didn't
check). Possibly because of lack of (numerous) user complaints combined
with developer care...

Now I am not totally decided on my future with nedit, but I am leaning
towards dismissing all Motif stuff on Linux, perhaps continue using
nedit, xpdf and xdvi (really, that's the set of three Motif apps I
use... the other "old" GUI is xfig, and that is Xaw3D, no issue there)
on the Solaris system at work. If suddenly, OpenMotif would be free --
and also would build in my current system without libXp, the case may
be different. But so it combines with the lack of nedit development in
important areas (like encodings) and makes it's use-case difficult for
me.

I am not decided yet, but I am looking out for any worthwhile editors
out there. That could take some time. There is the crazy plan to Hack
My Own Thing(tm), as always, possibly starting with the scintilla
widget (if that can be made less sluggish)... or FLTK. But perhaps I
really find one editor among the hundreds, thousands, out there.

Still, not decided...


Alrighty then,

Thomas.

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