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  • Is anybody maintaining nedit?

    From Van Snyder@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 28 02:20:02 2024
    Is anybody maintaining nedit? There's a list of developers on the "Help
    Version" menu but no addresses.

    The "Help => problems and defects" and "Help => Version" menus give a
    URL that lands on a site in Finland. I assume it's in Finland because
    it's all in Suomi, and has nothing to do with nedit.

    I'm running Debian 12.5 with KDE 5.27.5.

    I use "Nedit released by Debian (1:5.7-3)" with "Motif (Untested)
    2.3.8" and "Server: The X.Org Foundation 12101007."

    Sometimes after I've been editing for a while, the dialogue boxes stop
    allowing keyboard input.

    Is this a nedit thing, or has KDE somehow subverted it? Or, if I'm
    using Wayland instead of Xorg (how would I know)?

    Although it claims to be built with locale en_US.UTF-8, it doesn't do
    anything with "compose" keystrokes such as "Compose" / O to make Ø. but
    it's perfectly happy to let me input them if I create them elsewhere,
    such as in this mailer.  Is there a way to use compose keys in nedit?


    <html><head></head><body><div>Is anybody maintaining nedit? There's a list of developers on the "Help =&gt; Version" menu but no addresses.</div><div><br></div><div>The "Help =&gt; problems and defects" and "Help =&gt; Version" menus give a URL that
    lands on a site in Finland. I assume it's in Finland because it's all in Suomi, and has nothing to do with nedit.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm running Debian 12.5 with KDE 5.27.5.</div><div><br></div><div>I use "Nedit released by Debian (1:5.7-3)" with "
    Motif (Untested) 2.3.8" and "Server: The X.Org Foundation 12101007."</div><div><br></div><div>Sometimes after I've been editing for a while, the dialogue boxes stop allowing keyboard input.</div><div><br></div><div>Is this a nedit thing, or has KDE
    somehow subverted it? Or, if I'm using Wayland instead of Xorg (how would I know)?</div><div><br></div><div>Although it claims to be built with locale en_US.UTF-8, it doesn't do anything with "compose" keystrokes such as "Compose" / O to make Ø. but it'
    s perfectly happy to let me input them if I create them elsewhere, such as in this mailer. &nbsp;Is there a way to use compose keys in nedit?</div><div><br></div><div><span></span></div></body></html>

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  • From Andy Smith@21:1/5 to Van Snyder on Wed Aug 28 03:00:01 2024
    Hi,

    On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 05:16:07PM -0700, Van Snyder wrote:
    Is anybody maintaining nedit? There's a list of developers on the "Help
    Version" menu but no addresses.

    I assume you are asking if the upstream project is dead, rather than
    if it is maintained within Debian or not.

    I do not know anything about nedit but the Debian changelog implies
    there hasn't been an upstream release since 2017, while all other
    recent package updates are minor packaging details.

    https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/n/nedit/nedit_5.7-5_changelog

    ( linked from https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/nedit )

    Unless it was considered feature-complete in 2017, I don't think it
    is an ongoing project.

    I also note that its Debian maintainer has been assigned to the QA
    team, which typically happens for packages that no one volunteers to
    maintain any longer in Debian.

    Thanks,
    Andy

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  • From Fred@21:1/5 to Van Snyder on Wed Aug 28 03:20:01 2024
    On 8/27/24 17:16, Van Snyder wrote:
    Is anybody maintaining nedit? There's a list of developers on the "Help
    Version" menu but no addresses.

    The "Help => problems and defects" and "Help => Version" menus give a
    URL that lands on a site in Finland. I assume it's in Finland because
    it's all in Suomi, and has nothing to do with nedit.

    I'm running Debian 12.5 with KDE 5.27.5.

    I use "Nedit released by Debian (1:5.7-3)" with "Motif (Untested) 2.3.8"
    and "Server: The X.Org Foundation 12101007."

    Sometimes after I've been editing for a while, the dialogue boxes stop allowing keyboard input.

    Is this a nedit thing, or has KDE somehow subverted it? Or, if I'm using Wayland instead of Xorg (how would I know)?

    Although it claims to be built with locale en_US.UTF-8, it doesn't do anything with "compose" keystrokes such as "Compose" / O to make Ø. but
    it's perfectly happy to let me input them if I create them elsewhere,
    such as in this mailer.  Is there a way to use compose keys in nedit?

    Hi,
    I have been using that version of nedit but I don't use KDE. I just use openbox and xterms. Nedit works fine for me. I have never used the
    compose function.
    Best regards,
    Fred

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  • From David Wright@21:1/5 to Van Snyder on Fri Aug 30 05:10:01 2024
    On Tue 27 Aug 2024 at 18:16:13 (-0700), Van Snyder wrote:
    On Tue, 2024-08-27 at 20:01 -0500, David Wright wrote:
    Which key is Compose?

    I've gone to KDE System Settings => Keyboard => Advanced => Position of compose key and selected the right-ALT key.

    In nedit, does it do whatever is engraved on it, or whatever the

    Highlight something with left drag, then left-ALT middle drag exchanges
    them

    Doing it with right-ALT just replaces the left-drag selection with the middle-drag selection

    Might a different Compose key survive running nedit, for example
    CapsLock or Pause, which are fairly useless keys. (I use CapsLock.)
    I can't imagine nedit rebinding them.

    Cheers,
    David.

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