Re: launching a single instance of nedit for each text file

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:53 AM, TK Soh  wrote:
>
> Can you give some scenario where you don't want to use nc?

1. If nedit server was not opened with -svrname, nc from separate Unix
desktops will all belong to the same nedit server and show up in the
Windows menu file list. Not a huge issue (solution is to *always* use
-svrname) but it can be annoying if you forget the flag and I'm not
sure how many people especially casual nedit users(*) are familiar
with -svrname.

2. In any situation when I would want to start a new seperate nedit
windows. Of course even with a merged binary this could be done with a
new nedit server but this depends on which options you would give to
this new merged binary. If you removed the "-server" flag and the only
behaviour would be "open new server if none exists otherwise use
existing one" this could become annoying as it would force me to use
only a single nedit window.

(*) P.S. - I'm guessing most people on this list are not casual users
so perhaps you would have a hard time understanding this, but I know
many people who basically use NEdit as a Unix variant of Notepad and
have no idea about any of its abilities. Just as an example the other
day I showed someone who had been using NEdit for quite some time that
you could run a shell command such as "sort -u" or "grep" on a text
selection and he was amazed. These are not stupid people (engineers
mostly) but they just don't focus on nedit as an important tool to
study and understand. So probably for anyone on this list, using
"-svrname" is obvious and not an issue. However I strongly suspect
that most users do not even know of nedit command line flags and would
be bitten by any nedit issues for which the only solution would be to
use a command line flag.

Regards,
-- 
Offer Kaye
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