I just had NEdit lockup during a save (CTRL+S) of a new
untitled window. Unfortunately, I can't reproduce it.
The only information I have appeared in the console
window:
Name: nedit
Class: ApplicationShell
RowColumn.c(3512):_XmMenuFocus() -
XmMENU_FOCUS_RESTORE
window is not viewable
I don't know if this appeared as a result of the lockup, or
at some earlier point during my editing session.
I'm getting the general impression that NEdit will never
be stable as long as I'm using Cygwin/lesstif :(
Here's my version info:
NEdit 5.4RC1
Jul 16, 2003
Built on: Unknown, 386, GNU C
Built at: Aug 4 2003, 10:27:02
With Motif: 2.1.0 [@(#)GNU/LessTif Version 2.1
Release 0.93.18]
Running Motif: 2.1 [unknown]
Server: Hummingbird Ltd. 8000
Visual: 24-bit TrueColor (ID 0x23, Default)
Locale: C
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>I'm getting the general impression that NEdit will never
>be stable as long as I'm using Cygwin/lesstif :(
Upgrade to the latest 1.3.22 and also make sure that
you have the latest binutils. This means you get
setup.exe and setup.ini and release/cygwin and
release/binutils (save it on your drive). Then you
run the setup.exe, let the two things be installed.
Of course now you must at least rebuild NEdit, likely
also LessTif. This could fix the problems.
If not there is the tool cygckeck that can possibly show if
something is wrong with the Cygwin installation.
All I can say is I was running 1.3.10, 1.3.12 and now
1.3.22 without big problems. (I was updating once from
1.3.12 to 1.3.13 and immediately `downgraded' again to
1.3.12 because things didn't work out any more somehow
AFAI can recall. So maybe you got some not so good cygwin
dll.)
If you are interested the only two problems I currently
notice with Cygwin are:
1. If you spawn a daemon from shell_command() you can't
exit NEdit as long as you terminate the daemon first.
Otherwise NEdit hangs.
2. Running filters like fmt, tr or sort is curious. While
sort always works, all other filters hang if the output
of the filter exceeds a certain size (on my system about
33K, others report 16K on their system). You have then to
kill the filter to go on.
(Additionally there are of course the usual LessTif issues.)
I still think you are wrong in the NEdit bug tracker with
this. NEdit developers can't fix Cygwin (nor LessTif).
--Joerg
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Is this still an issue with recent Cygwin/Lesstif versions?
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Presumably a Cygwin problem. Since Cygwin is constantly
evolving, it is almost impossible to track this down.