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

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Offer Kaye <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

No offense. But I first reaction to your comment is "what a shame..."

The developers spent a lot of effort putting in those 'extras', but
all that the [casual] users need is a notepad.

On the other hand, I suspect these users won't care much about what we
are trying to do here either, as long as it remain [somewhat]
transparent to them.

> Regards,
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