From: Randy Kramer <rhkramer@...>
Date: 2005-08-25T05:03:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Good cross-platform IDE / multiple document text editor for ruby / rails?

On Wednesday 24 August 2005 03:27 pm, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Getting off topic: I like nedit, but ever since I switched from
> mandrake 10.1 to ubuntu hoary it's window focus has been behaving
> strangely. For example, if I use Alt-D completion (or any Alt or Ctrl
> command), and the mouse is outside the text area, then after the
> completion, the text area refuses to accept input. The window doesn't
> lose focus (in fact, if I do Alt-F Escape, I can then type normally
> again). If the mouse is inside the text area, then it's all ok.
>
> This happens with or without my own .nedit file, and it even happens in
> a blank user I just created with no special X settings, and it happens
> under KDE or under Gnome. I even tried building nedit from source,
> rather than use the ubuntu deb, and that didn't make a difference.
>
> Just thought I'd ask here in case anyone knew...

I don't know, but I have a thought.  I'm at my Mandrake 10 system right now--I 
have no problem like you describe either on this or my Mandrake 10.1 system.

But, iirc, both Mandrake 10 and 10.1 come with nedit 5.3.  I upgraded both 
systems to 5.5 (not because of any real problem with 5.3, but because there 
was some feature that I needed in 5.5 (atm, I can't recall what that was)).  
Anyway, as I recall, upgrading to 5.5 was no problem, I think I may have even 
compiled it from source rather than finding a binary RPM.  (One of the first 
times I ever managed that (at least, without IRC handholding).)

Hmm, something else is coming back to me, too, just a random thought--is your 
nedit running with Motif or Lesstif?  (Check the version information under 
help.)  There are one or more problems associated with using lesstif--I don't 
recall whether the nedit that came with Mandrake 10 and 10.1 used lesstif or 
motif, but I'm now using motif--I may have switched when I installed nedit 
5.5.  (And, iiuc, whatever political/freedom issues existed with motif that 
caused the creation of lesstif are now resolved.)

regards,
Randy Kramer