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Date:      Mon, 9 Feb 2004 15:49:15 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        Adam McLaurin <adam.mclaurin@gmx.net>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: NEdit 5.4 and open-motif 2.2.2
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10402091548140.15844-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040209153444.44484b0e.adam.mclaurin@gmx.net>

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On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Adam McLaurin wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
> 
> In your comments for the NEdit 5.4 update, you say:
> "Update Nedit to 5.4.  Note that our open-motif port is at 2.2.2 which
> is known to be buggy.  It was pulled from the opengroup site.  Nedit now
> checks the version of motif and issues a very loud warning when it is
> built."
> 
> Should we take this as a warning not to use NEdit for mission-critical
> editing? I normally use NEdit for my conf files and such, as it's quite
> easy to use and traditionally extremely reliable.

Use it knowing that it might crash.  Save your changes often.
You may not experience any crashes.

> What's going on with the open-motif port? What is particularly buggy
> about it?

See http://www.nedit.org/toolkit.shtml

-- 
Dan Eischen



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