[plug] re: editing

Oliver White ojw at iinet.net.au
Mon Jul 26 18:59:59 WST 1999


Christian wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Where bouts is the nedit FTP site?


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