[plug] re: editing

[Christian]

blockley at environ.wa.gov.au wrote:
> 
> On 25 Jul, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> 
> One of my colleagues had a similar problem using Nedit linked to
> lesstif on RedHat 5.2. Updating to a more recent version of Lesstif
> fixed most of his problems.  There have been problems with Nedit and
> Lesstif most of these have (I think) been ironed out with the latest
> releases of Lesstif.  Most of the problems appear to relate to hot key
> use.  I have used the static linked binary of Nedit from the Nedit site
> under SUSE 5.2 as well as a dynamically linked version (not to lesstif
> though)  I tend to worry a lot about losing my edits and hence use
> Ctl-S frequently (its a bit of a hangover from my Windows days :-) ).

Yeah, the lesstif-linked nedit that is the default "nedit" package in
Debian was very, very unstable the last time I tried it.  (As was the
DDD linked against lesstif...)  I've *never* had the static Motif build
of nedit from the nedit FTP site *ever* crash on me.

Regards,

Christian.

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