Re: [nedit-develop] Status of UTF support in NEdit?

[Goetz T. F. <g.f...@r-...>]

despite its many other qualities a major one has always been and still
is compatibility. switching to whichever other gui would be a major
overhaul and most likely kill that very quality. hence imho something in
that regard should not become part of the main branch but either some
additional branch or a completely separate project.
for such a long standing and mature product like nedit it's very
difficult to find actual improvements. i hope not to see the same
mistakes here as so many other projects made as in feeling the need to
"modernize" some parts just for the heck of it without adding any actual
value. but instead ending up with much more limits and obstacles than
before.
unfortunately the introduction of intptr_t in the current head branch
goes in this very direction already. please realize the responsibility
you have here, nedit is not only a great editor but also a classy piece
of history.


On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 11:19:03 -0500, Scott Tringali wrote:
> There's a couple of downsides...
> 
> One is conditionalizing it so that it doesn't break for builds that 
> don't have that version of OpenMotif. Not that I'm a fan, but one very 
> good thing about nedit is that you can pick it up and build it on a 
> solaris or irix box without having to go get GTK or build motif yourself 
> (which might be impossible).
> 
> Porting to GTK would be nice, but then it means it only works on systems 
> with gtk. If I invested the effort, I'd actually port to something like 
> wxWidgets.
> 
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