Activity for XNEdit

Pyrphoros committed [0ffad9] on Code

Pyrphoros — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:49:04 -0000

fix another memory leak

Pyrphoros committed [e07646] on Code

Pyrphoros — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:49:04 -0000

fix some XmString memory leaks in the colors dialog

GitHub committed [aaf184] on Code

GitHub — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:49:04 -0000

Improvements and bug fixes for main window graphical output (drawString in textDisp.c) (#214)

Pyrphoros committed [a071e5] on Code

Pyrphoros — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:21:13 -0000

replace tabs with spaces

Pyrphoros committed [0c24fd] on Code

Pyrphoros — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:21:12 -0000

rename MENU_COLS to menuCols

GitHub committed [99ba84] on Code

GitHub — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:21:12 -0000

Makes the Syntax Highlighting Patterns language mode and highlighting style menus multi-column (#211)

Pyrphoros committed [5bdc94] on Code

Pyrphoros — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:48:54 -0000

don't strip file name from spaces when opening a file with Ctrl+Y

GitHub committed [74ac15] on Code

GitHub — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:48:54 -0000

Only clear the right margin area if the area needs to be cleared — resolves #206 (#207)

Pyrphoros committed [5559c7] on Code

Pyrphoros — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:48:54 -0000

enable xft render table for newer motif versions

Techokami posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Techokami — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:07:12 -0000

Ah neat! I saw the messages since I'm subscribed to updates on Tim's Motif :P Yep, I can confirm this fixes it. Thank you!

Pyrphoros posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Pyrphoros — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:06:51 -0000

I opened an issue there (https://github.com/thentenaar/motif/issues/50) and it is fixed now.

Pyrphoros posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Pyrphoros — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:34:39 -0000

No, I haven't changed anything.

Techokami posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Techokami — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:02:45 -0000

Alright, I went back and basically commented out all the stuff pertaining to setting up the fallback resources, and then IT WORKED. So, something has changed between now and when you last tried building XNEdit with Tim's Motif fork regarding the fallback resources...

Techokami posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Techokami — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:48:23 -0000

I have seen that you created an issue on github about a similar problem: https://github.com/thentenaar/motif/issues/49 Yes, I've been working with the CDE project lately to get things more stable with Tim's Motif fork. For me this looks 100% like a problem with this motif fork. It crashes directly at the start inside XtAppCreateShell. The reason xnedit crashes and other motif apps don't is probably that the fallback resource sets a custom render table, in the file nedit.c, line 174 to 182. You could...

Pyrphoros posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Pyrphoros — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:55:02 -0000

I have seen that you created an issue on github about a similar problem: https://github.com/thentenaar/motif/issues/49 For me this looks 100% like a problem with this motif fork. It crashes directly at the start inside XtAppCreateShell. The reason xnedit crashes and other motif apps don't is probably that the fallback resource sets a custom render table, in the file nedit.c, line 174 to 182. You could try to remove that or modify the render table and see if this solves the problem. Whats weird is,...

Techokami posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Techokami — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 22:09:49 -0000

Good evening! I have been trying today to get A version of NEdit working on my system to go with a nice CDE setup. Other versions are either abandoned/obsoleted or have no means of reporting issues. Thank heavens this project exists, with actual signs of life, a means of communication, and actually still using Motif. I am attempting to compile and run XNedit on Fedora 44 using Tim Hentenaar's Motif fork, which can be found here: https://github.com/thentenaar/motif After running make linux and waiting,...

Pyrphoros committed [3429c7] on Code

Pyrphoros — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:38:52 -0000

Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/unixwork/xnedit

GitHub committed [c26f69] on Code

GitHub — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:38:52 -0000

Fix macOS lib detection: check /opt/local/include/X11 instead of /opt/local/lib/X11 (#201)

Pyrphoros committed [2a9d15] on Code

Pyrphoros — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:38:52 -0000

fix default settings for Right Margin was not changeable

Pyrphoros committed [54d8b8] on Code

Pyrphoros — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:11:14 -0000

fix gaps in underline

Pyrphoros committed [ba7698] on Code

Pyrphoros — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:29:26 -0000

fix width when drawing the underline style

Pyrphoros committed [25e7a3] on Code

Pyrphoros — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:29:26 -0000

update help text

GitHub committed [ca1d07] on Code

GitHub — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:29:26 -0000

15-08-2026: Bugfix (#199)

Dusan Peterc posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Dusan Peterc — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:08:46 -0000

Project seems to be quite active with daily changes, so maybe it has improved since the time when you have built it. I will try it myself during vacation and let you know the results.

Pyrphoros posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Pyrphoros — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:37:17 -0000

Maybe I did something wrong (SDL2 instead of SDL3 or something else). In my test the main window was not resizeable. Also I had some problems with the Xft text rendering. When text was redrawn, it was not 100% cleared and there were some artefacts from previously drawn text. I had this effect in the text widget, but also in the menu bar. I also had problems with opening sub-menus. Have you tried it yourself and didn't have these issues?

Dusan Peterc posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Dusan Peterc — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:30:23 -0000

What was missing in order to be usable? Cut and paste seems to be the obvious problem. Maybe we try to give the authors some feedback, so the project does not die, if they already came to this advanced level. I was thinking that if xnedit would work fine, I could use it for porting my other X11/Motif software.

Pyrphoros posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Pyrphoros — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:02:16 -0000

I have only tested it on macOS. It looks very promising, but it wasn't fully useable yet.

Dusan Peterc posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Dusan Peterc — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:34:51 -0000

Their innovative solution is to embed X11 servers in the application, and render graphics and windows by SDL They even did the xnedit port as a proof of concept (on MacOS) https://github.com/sysprog21/libx11-compat If somebody compiles it for Windows, please post a link to binary, I would be curios to test it out.

Phil Stracchino posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Phil Stracchino — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:18:17 -0000

Never mind, I just got it to stick, I think.

Phil Stracchino modified a comment on discussion General Discussion

Phil Stracchino — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:31:18 -0000

Upon further investigation, I'm not seeing USE_XFT being passed as a compile argument. I modified my Gentoo ebuild for xnedit to make sure that both USE_XFT=1 and the correct processor CFLAGS were being explicitly passed, then recompiled and tried again, even duplicating nedit* to XNEdit* just in case, and I still cannot specify the interface font, or even increase its size. My current Xresource stanza is: nedit*defaultRT.fontList: -misc-univers-regular-r-normal-*-*-16-*-*-p-*-*-1 nedit*defaultRT.fontName:...

Phil Stracchino posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Phil Stracchino — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:03:50 -0000

Phil Stracchino modified a comment on discussion General Discussion

Phil Stracchino — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:12:14 -0000

I haven't changed fontType from FONT_IS_XFT. No matter how I specify it, though, whether in .Xresources, on the command line using -xrm, or by directly moficying nedit.c, XNedit appears to ignore my interface font specification and gives me an almost-unreadably tiny font. I can't even override the font size with a simple -xrm '*fontSize: 18'. I'm not quite sure what to try next.

Phil Stracchino posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Phil Stracchino — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:09:52 -0000

I haven't changed fontType from FONT_IS_XFT. No matter how I specify it, though, whether in .Xresources, on the command line using -xrm, or by directly moficying nedit.c, XNedit appears to ignore my interface font specification and gives me an almost-unreadably tiny font. I can't even override the font size with a simple -xrm *fontSize: 18. I'm not quite sure what to try next.

Pyrphoros posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Pyrphoros — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:42:28 -0000

By default xnedit should already use TrueType fonts for menus and other UI elements. If you have modified your X resources, it is important to use FONT_IS_XFT as fontType.

Phil Stracchino posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Phil Stracchino — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:18:02 -0000

To add to this question: Is there any way to configure Xnedit to use a SCALABLE font for its menus? I'm trying to eliminate bitmapped fonts from my system. (It's not font purism; the problem I'm trying to solve is that while Gimp 2 didn't do it, Gimp 3 cannot be told not to enumerate every individual size of every bitmap font on the system in its text tool's font pull-down.)

SweetTyler posted a comment on ticket #49

SweetTyler — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:08:12 -0000

I forgot to mention that the following settings in nedit.rc are needed to reproduce the issue: nedit.warnFileMods: True nedit.warnRealFileMods: True I also found that if I set the second "resp" (lines 2561–2574 in file.c) to "1" directly, without calling DialogF(), the issue disappears in this test case. XUngrabPointer(XtDisplay(window->shell), timestamp); if (window->fileChanged) resp = DialogF(DF_WARN, window->shell, 2, "File modified externally", "%s has been modified by another program. Reload?\n\n"...

Pyrphoros committed [490317] on Code

Pyrphoros — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:50:36 -0000

replace usage of ParseXftColor with AllocXftColor2

Pyrphoros committed [5ed8a0] on Code

Pyrphoros — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:04:22 -0000

adjust lib flags order in generic makefile

SweetTyler posted a comment on ticket #50

SweetTyler — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:40:29 -0000

Thank you for the quick fix.

Pyrphoros modified ticket #50

Pyrphoros — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:31:28 -0000

Compilation error

Pyrphoros posted a comment on ticket #50

Pyrphoros — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:30:42 -0000

Thanks for the info. The issue is fixed now.

Pyrphoros committed [016ce0] on Code

Pyrphoros — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:28:46 -0000

fix compilation error when building with -DREPLACE_SCOPE

SweetTyler posted a comment on ticket #50

SweetTyler — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:49:51 -0000

The error has nothing to do with my Makefile. As soon as I add "-DREPLACE_SCOPE" to the original Makefile, the error appears.

SweetTyler posted a comment on ticket #50

SweetTyler — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:12:03 -0000

Here is my Makefile.linux: # $Id: Makefile.linux,v 1.14 2006/10/26 02:20:16 tringali Exp $ CC = gcc AR = gcc-ar # For editres, add -DEDITRES to CFLAGS and -lXmu to LIBS # If using a Motif 2.1 compatible library (LessTif, OM) add # a '-lXp' in front of the -lXext in LIBS. You also drop the # -lXpm from that list. # Ensure that the Motif/LessTif headers and libs are found! # e.g. you may have to add something like # -I/usr/lesstif/include to CFLAGS and # -L/usr/lesstif/lib to LIBS # # To evaluate an...

SweetTyler created ticket #50

SweetTyler — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:09:08 -0000

Compilation error

Pyrphoros committed [7bcdd6] on Code

Pyrphoros — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:09:36 -0000

fix compilation in C23 mode

SweetTyler posted a comment on ticket #49

SweetTyler — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:53:14 -0000

My system is Fedora 43. Xnedit source code is the latest version downloaded from GitHub.

SweetTyler posted a comment on ticket #49

SweetTyler — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:45:11 -0000

Here is the snapshot.

SweetTyler created ticket #49

SweetTyler — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:43:27 -0000

unexpected highlighting/selection

Pyrphoros committed [c0080c] on Code

Pyrphoros — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:09:47 -0000

fix buffer overflow when inserting large text in the XNETextField

Pyrphoros committed [597496] on Code

Pyrphoros — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:04:48 -0000

fix redisplay of text widget edges after changing colors

Pyrphoros modified ticket #48

Pyrphoros — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:59:24 -0000

encoding at Save As

SweetTyler posted a comment on ticket #48

SweetTyler — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:43:08 -0000

Then please close this report.

SweetTyler posted a comment on ticket #48

SweetTyler — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:42:33 -0000

Thank you. The compiler is gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 on Fedora 43.

Pyrphoros committed [bc8c3e] on Code

Pyrphoros — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:18:05 -0000

enable Right Margin

Pyrphoros committed [b98ebc] on Code

Pyrphoros — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:10:54 -0000

fix redraw of textwidget edges after resize if right margin is enabled

Pyrphoros posted a comment on ticket #48

Pyrphoros — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:10:22 -0000

I think both warnings are not an issue, especially the first one. Which compiler version is this?

Pyrphoros committed [7f6cf6] on Code

Pyrphoros — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:01:51 -0000

fix misleading types in XmStringTable allocations

SweetTyler posted a comment on ticket #48

SweetTyler — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:01:45 -0000

The correct order is: LIBS = $(LD_OPT_FLAGS) -lXm -lXrender -lm -lpthread $(shell pkg-config --libs $(PKG_DEPS))

SweetTyler posted a comment on ticket #48

SweetTyler — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:29:10 -0000

The tile is wrong. I don't know how I made the mistake. for your reference, the following is the Makefile.linux I tried with: CC ?= gcc AR ?= gcc-ar PKG_DEPS = x11 xt xft fontconfig C_OPT_FLAGS ?= -O3 -flto -fno-semantic-interposition C_ARCH_FLAGS ?= -march=native C_VIS_FLAGS ?= -fvisibility=hidden LD_OPT_FLAGS ?= -flto CFLAGS = $(C_OPT_FLAGS) $(C_ARCH_FLAGS) $(C_VIS_FLAGS) \ -std=gnu99 -DREPLACE_SCOPE -DUSE_LPR_PRINT_CMD \ $(shell pkg-config --cflags $(PKG_DEPS)) ARFLAGS = -urs LIBS = $(LD_OPT_FLAGS)...

SweetTyler created ticket #48

SweetTyler — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:24:34 -0000

encoding at Save As

Pyrphoros committed [225a70] on Code

Pyrphoros — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:05:37 -0000

make grid header arrows etched out by default

Pyrphoros committed [0bb541] on Code

Pyrphoros — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:53:57 -0000

add Microline Grid arrowEtchedIn resource

Pyrphoros committed [dcd6d8] on Code

Pyrphoros — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:58:50 -0000

fix shading of sort direction arrow in Fsb in detail view

Pyrphoros committed [790311] on Code

Pyrphoros — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:25:55 -0000

fix incorrect type in textfield renderTable XtResource definition

Pyrphoros posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Pyrphoros — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:41:05 -0000

Yes this is possible and makes a lot of sense. I will try to implement this.

Phil Stracchino posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Phil Stracchino — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:38:04 -0000

That could probably best be achieved by a naïve file-size check before even TRYING to load the file. "Directory listing says this file is 2.8GB in size. It is too large to be loaded into xnedit."

Pyrphoros committed [9b2f2b] on Code

Pyrphoros — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:05:07 -0000

use filter when opening files with open-selected

Pyrphoros committed [727710] on Code

Pyrphoros — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:05:07 -0000

use dummy stdin/out/err in background mode

SweetTyler posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

SweetTyler — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:13:42 -0000

I think it would be better to have a warning (like the encoding warning) if the file is not completely loaded.

SweetTyler posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

SweetTyler — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:44:58 -0000

Thank both of you for your comments. it's true that I rarely need to deal with a text file with such large size.

Phil Stracchino modified a comment on discussion General Discussion

Phil Stracchino — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:03:56 -0000

Honestly it doesn't seem like a limitation one would hit very often, but I suppose the ticket indicates the use case does actually exist. My short-term workaround would be to split the log file into managable-size chunks using a cli tool. 'split -l 10000000 $FILE' seems a good first step.

Phil Stracchino posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Phil Stracchino — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:03:05 -0000

Pyrphoros posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Pyrphoros — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:38:51 -0000

Yes, xnedit uses signed 32 bit integers internally and can only open files up to 2gb. This is something I'm more or less working on, but there is no easy fix

SweetTyler posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

SweetTyler — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:23:32 -0000

Is there a file size limitation for xnedit? I have a log file that is 4,374,493,362 bytes in size (50,062,082 lines). When I try to open it with xnedit, it does not load the entire file. The status bar eventually shows “byte 79,522,952 of 79,526,066”, indicating that only part of the file (only 921,610 lines) was loaded.

Pyrphoros committed [a27489] on Code

Pyrphoros — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 10:20:45 -0000

add right margin colors to default color profiles

Pyrphoros committed [fa937a] on Code

Pyrphoros — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:54:38 -0000

add dialog for changing the right margin

Pyrphoros committed [de9104] on Code

Pyrphoros — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:49:50 -0000

implement menu items for setting showRightMargin

Pyrphoros committed [7f8f23] on Code

Pyrphoros — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 12:32:43 -0000

add UI for setting the right margin colors

Pyrphoros committed [e75d45] on Code

Pyrphoros — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 12:32:43 -0000

enable text bg2 drawing beyond right margin

Pyrphoros committed [b6eb1c] on Code

Pyrphoros — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:04:22 -0000

implement functions for changing right margin in the text widget

Pyrphoros committed [9ae1e9] on Code

Pyrphoros — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 13:41:11 -0000

rename preference rborderColor to rightMarginColor

Pyrphoros committed [d064e5] on Code

Pyrphoros — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 13:41:10 -0000

implement preferences for right margin

Pyrphoros committed [12e28c] on Code

Pyrphoros — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 13:41:10 -0000

draw vertical line in the text widget after 80 characters

GitHub committed [3e7445] on Code

GitHub — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 13:41:10 -0000

switch from ubuntu-latest to ubuntu-22.04 in github action (#184)

Pyrphoros committed [e11565] on Code

Pyrphoros — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:55:07 -0000

add link to sourcehut

Pyrphoros committed [0f2e04] on Code

Pyrphoros — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:55:07 -0000

update libs in macos build-dependencies script

Pyrphoros committed [aad8df] on Code

Pyrphoros — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:54:14 -0000

fix fix checkAutoShowInsertPos/callCursorMovementCBs order when moving the cursor

Phil Stracchino posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Phil Stracchino — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:16:28 -0000

On 12/14/25 14:46, Pyrphoros wrote: No, there is no mailing list. Would a rss/atom feed just for releases help? That would be something I could create. That would be helpful, yes. I just installed an RSS reader extension in my browser. -- Phil Stracchino Fenian House Publishing phils@caerllewys.net phil@co.ordinate.org Landline: +1.603.293.8485 Mobile: +1.603.998.6958

Pyrphoros posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Pyrphoros — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:46:00 -0000

No, there is no mailing list. Would a rss/atom feed just for releases help? That would be something I could create.

Phil Stracchino posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Phil Stracchino — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:39:06 -0000

On 12/14/25 13:32, SweetTyler wrote: Thank you. Everything is working as expected now. About file encoding https://sourceforge.net/p/xnedit/discussion/ general/thread/ed86aa6386/?limit=25#6e0a Quickie question: I maintain an ebuild for xnedit in my unofficial Gentoo overlay. Is there an -announce list I can join to get timely notification of new upstream releases? I didn't realize until today that I was a minor version behind. (It's up-to-date now.) -- Phil Stracchino Fenian House Publishing phils@caerllewys.net...

SweetTyler posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

SweetTyler — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:32:45 -0000

Thank you. Everything is working as expected now.

Pyrphoros posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Pyrphoros — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:45:32 -0000

It is a bug. The newest commit should fix this issue.

Pyrphoros committed [d73464] on Code

Pyrphoros — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:45:06 -0000

fix DetectEncoding misses some utf8 encoding errors

SweetTyler posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

SweetTyler — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 04:14:16 -0000

I have an attached file that is encoded in ISO-8859-1, as confirmed by the Linux file command. However, when I open it with xnedit, xnedit always reports: “4 non-convertible characters skipped …” If I manually select ISO8859-1 and click the Reload button, the file loads correctly. I also tried changing the following settings in nedit.rc: nedit.editorConfig: False nedit.defaultCharset: ISO8859-1 nedit.fallbackCharset: ISO8859-1 but they did not help—xnedit still reports the same error every time....

Pyrphoros modified ticket #47

Pyrphoros — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:46:56 -0000

Paste using the middle mouse button

SweetTyler posted a comment on ticket #47

SweetTyler — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:46:04 -0000

Thank you! Yes! I confirm it works now.

Pyrphoros posted a comment on ticket #47

Pyrphoros — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:59:01 -0000

It should work now. I think it only affected Gnome Wayland or other Wayland based desktops.

Pyrphoros committed [5f2100] on Code

Pyrphoros — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:53:50 -0000

fix textfield primary selection insertion on some platforms