[Xquartz-dev] X11 2.4.0 vs nedit 5.6-cvs20081118

[Jack Howarth]

Merle,
   Thanks for the report. I am going to take over maintainership
of the fink nedit package and update to the same 5.6-cvs20081118
tarball as Debian uses. I much prefer the sensible error message
that it gives when the clipboard is locked (rather than failing
silently like nedit 5.5 does). I'll pass the lesstif change back
upstream since they mangled the debian patches when merging them
in lesstif cvs.
               Jack

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 08:24:41AM -0400, Merle Reinhart wrote:
> Jack,
>
> That fink lesstif change works for me.  Fink's nedit now behaves in  
> X11-2.4.0 the same as it did in X11-2.3.3.2.  I'm running a 1st-gen  
> MacPro with fink in i386 mode.
>
> When the X11/OSX pasteboard synchronization stuff started appearing in  
> X11, nedit wound up with a tendency to not want to copy between nedit  
> windows in an X11 sort of way.  However, if instead of control-c to copy 
> in nedit you use command-c (ie, round-trip via the OS X pasteboard), then 
> you can just control-v in the other nedit window (though 
> control-c/control-v works within a nedit window).
>
> Since a large amount of my cutting-and-pasting is between OSX windows  
> and nedit windows, I personally don't find this a problem (in some ways, 
> it is a step closer to X11 behaving like the rest of OS X with  
> cut/paste).
>
> However, I did notice that if you disable the pasteboard synching in the 
> X11 preferences, you can copy back and forth between nedit windows in the 
> standard X11 way without issue (and you can still cut-and-paste between 
> the X11 windows and OSX windows as one did before the pasteboard synching 
> got put into X11).
>
> This is with the lesstif-0.95.2 update and nedit-5.5-2 rebuilt against  
> that updated lesstif and X11-2.4.0.
>
> I was also playing a bit with cut in ddd (which uses lesstif).  It would 
> crash the same way nedit crashed with the previous fink lesstif version 
> when trying to copy to the clipboard.  Now it no longer crashes and the 
> copy/paste seems to work.
>
> So, the fink lesstif fix looks good to me with X11-2.4.0.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Merle
>
>
>
> On Aug 27, 2009, at 11:39 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:
>
>>   I have been trying to solve some issues with the lesstif-0.95.2
>> and nedit fink packages on i386, powerpc and x86_64. I believe I
>> have solved the lesstif 0.95.2 bus errors (which was due to missing
>> braces from a debian patch accepted upstream)...
>>
>> --- lesstif-0.95.2/lib/Xm-2.1/CutPaste.c.org    2009-08-27  
>> 21:44:12.000000000 -0400
>> +++ lesstif-0.95.2/lib/Xm-2.1/CutPaste.c        2009-08-27  
>> 21:45:25.000000000 -0400
>> @@ -1028,9 +1028,11 @@
>>        /* XChangeProperty expects a buffer of longs when receiving 32 
>> bits
>>           data, MEUHH */
>>        if (sizeof(long) != 4)
>> +        {
>>            convert_buf = XtMalloc(len * sizeof(long));
>>         for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
>>             convert_buf[i] = data[i];
>> +        }
>>        break;
>>
>>     case 16:
>>
>> The ability to copy and paste in nedit 5.5 still seems non-functional 
>> under
>> i386 fink. Upgrading nedit to the same 5.6-cvs20081118 debian sid  
>> tarball solved the
>> paste problem with one oddity. I have to disable ""Update Pasteboard  
>> when clipboard
>> changes" in the Preferences of X11 or I get an error message...
>>
>> XmClipboardInquireLength() failed: clipboard locked.
>>
>> when I try to paste text from one nedit window to another (but not  
>> when I
>> copy the text beforehand). Has anyone else run into this issue yet?
>>          Jack
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