NEdit 5.4 and open-motif 2.2.2

[Daniel Eischen]

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