Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 00:34:55 -0000 From: Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de> To: Dan Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NEdit and OpenMotif 2.2 - crashes? Message-ID: <20031210002712.GA2145@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> In-Reply-To: <3FD65864.9060505@vigrid.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10312090053140.19743-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> <20031209061635.GA55832@hal9000.halplant.com> <3FD65864.9060505@vigrid.com>
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--LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Dan, > I have had 5.3 crash a few times -- usually when having multiple > files open and trying to close one of them. I do not use text > highlighting or some of the more possibly complicated features > of nedit, so my experience may not be the norm. I am using NEdit for a long time now, and it crashed only once -- this was when I wrote you a private message. I must say that I was really shocked because of that crash, because I use NEdit for pretty much everything (admittedly, I start using vim for more and more tasks, but lazy as I am I still stick with my old tools ;-) As you say futher down in your email, people "get really pissed when their editors crash and they lose work". That's why I started some expermients with 5.4RC2. First, I build it with lesstif as suggested by the NEdit people. I used the most recent version that was available at that time (probably 0.93.94 or 0.93.91), and I must say that that did not convince me at all: I had focus problems with the search dialogue, lesstif complained about deprecated library functions when I launched NEdit, the widgets looked ugly^W unfamiliar, ... > But, version 5.4 is about to be announced and the nedit developers > have added code that explicitly checks for openmotif 2.2.1 and > abort the build if it is found. They are very adamant that > you should not use openmotif 2.2. nedit-5.4 may well tickle > more bugs with openmotif. I've posted this in the last message, > but it bears reiterating: I am using NEdit 5.4RC that has been build against a OpenMotif 2.2.2, and I did not have a single problem since then. > http://www.motifdeveloper.com/tips/tip22.html >=20 > It does not seem suitable for a stable release. I'd have no > problem with having an openmotif-devel that was used this > version, but I think the openmotif port should go back to > the last stable release. Regarding my experiences with lesstif I fully agree with that. I don't think that the NEdit developers are making up the problems with OpenMotif 2.2.2, and I am really not keen on discovering them. Cheers, Simon --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/1mhgCkn+/eutqCoRAi/zAJsFUo4e2k9ZSflrd4Zh85WdkmjWWACgqKwZ +3tCE1q+O2V1gXfPZfAsRIg= =r9Db -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp--
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