Re: xedit segfault on open

Hi Alan,


Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>
> Unfortunately the one upstream developer who knew the lisp code hasn't
> been involved in xedit in many years.

Maybe he can still have a look for a beer :)
I reported the bug so it is tracked at least.

> Except that we don't ship xedit in Solaris - emacs, vim, nano, & gedit
> seem to be enough to satisfy our users.  (We don't build emacs with the
> optional tree-sitter support in Solaris, so don't hit problems with its
> node.js dependency as you do.)
>

I see, a pity it is not shipped, it is always a handy editor that 
(usually) never fails.
I prefer vim and emacs usually, but xedit is fast and reliable 
especially over network. And I am without vim and emacs on Linux/sparc, 
that's an issue currently.

maybe we should disable tree-sitter, although tree-sitter itself is 
declared to be just POSIX without dependencies, so I wonder how we get 
entabgled in the NodeJS damnation!

> I'll see if we can figure this out as spare time allows, but it's not a
> priority.   (As you can see from the new bug being only the third bug
> reported against xedit in years, it's not widely used today.)
>

Stable code needs little work!  Few bugs isn't always a problem!

Riccardo