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From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
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Subject: Re: NEdit 5.4 and open-motif 2.2.2
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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.
> 
> What's going on with the open-motif port? What is particularly buggy
> about it?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

I am hoping that the open-motif port maintainer will downgrade the 
open-motif port soon.  I sent him an email the other day asking him 
about it, but I have not heard back yet.

As for myself, nedit has never failed me.

-- 

Stephen Montgomery-Smith
stephen@math.missouri.edu
http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen