Re: Looking for NEdit 5.5 with toolbar patch for Linux platform (SLES9 / SLES10)

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:47 AM, Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg-gM/[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 22:19, Tony Balinski <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Quoting Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg-gM/[email protected]>:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:09, Helmut Jarausch
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > On 24 Jun, TK Soh wrote:
>>> >> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Paterline, David L. (NF)
>>> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >>> Hi -
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Does anyone have a binary version of NEdit with the T. K. Soh toolbar
>>> patch which executed on a Linux SLES 9 / SLES 10 platform? I've tried to
>>> compile the version with the patch, but have had some problems with
>>> X/Motif. So, if anyone has a version built for those platforms, I'd
>>> appreciate getting a copy.
>>> >>
>>> >> I am using one on Fedora 9 (along with a few other patches of mine),
>>> >> but not sure it's going to work for you.
>>> >
>>> > Please tell, where are your patches and other recent patches for NEdit?
>>>
>>> I can speak only for myself and know from Tony Balinski's patched NEdit:
>>>
>>> My patches are here:
>>>
>>> http://kgb2.thruhere.net/git/?p=nedit-bw.git;a=summary
>>
>> Do you have an already-patched tree of your stuff, Bert? I'd like to see what
>> I can steal (in particular your assign-to-tuple parse.y stuff).
>
> Doesn't a list of patches than suits your needs better? Anyway, Yes,
> I've done tar-balls in the past and could generate new ones. But as I
> wrote, the quilt patches are out-of-date and I'm in the process to
> import them all into git. The main goal is to make them independent of
> each other, so that others can easily pick single ones (inclusive
> dependent patches). But this takes time which I don't have :(
>
>>
>> There are a lot of interesting patches out there and, although I could be
>> accused of "creeping featurism", I'd like to pull them into my on-going
>> version. BTW I've done a lot of stuff in my corner, but not available as
>> patches; my source tree is diverging rather from the 5.5/5.6 head. I really
>> need to make a list of features I have and features I want... hmmm...
>
> Yeah, I've take a cursory look and saw your screen shots yesterday.
> One thing that immediately catches my eyes was, that we really need a
> scrollable calltip. For long man pages and for long lists of
> suggestions for word completion.

This issue on releasing 5.6 seem keep popping up on the list.
Personally, things are getting a bit boring, and I am hoping a new
release would somehow inject a bit of new life into NEdit. Should be
put together these old patches and push for a source-only release of
5.6?
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