Solutions to Common Problems
For a much more comprehensive list of common problems
and solutions, see the NEdit FAQ. The latest version
of the FAQ can always be found on the nedit web site
at: http://nedit.org.
- P: No files are shown in
the "Files" list in the Open... dialog.
S: When you use the "Filter"
field, include the file specification or a complete
directory specification, including the trailing
"/" on Unix. (See Help in the Open...
dialog).
- P: Keyboard shortcuts for
menu items don't work.
S: Be sure the Caps Lock and Num Lock keys are
both unlocked. In Motif programs, these keys prevent
the menu accelerators from working.
- P: Find Again and Replace
Again don't continue in the same direction as
the original Find or Replace.
S: Find Again and Replace Again don't use the
direction of the original search.
The Shift key controls the direction: Ctrl+G means
forward, Shift+Ctrl+G means backward.
- P: Preferences specified
in the Preferences menu don't seem to get saved
when I select Save Defaults.
S: NEdit has two kinds of preferences: 1) per-window
preferences, in the Preferences menu, and 2) default
settings for preferences in newly created windows,
in the Default Settings sub-menu of the Preferences
menu. Per- window preferences are not saved by
Save Defaults, only Default Settings.
- P: Columns and indentation
don't line up.
S: NEdit is using a proportional width font. Set
the font to a fixed style (see Preferences).
- P: NEdit performs poorly
on very large files.
S: Turn off Incremental Backup. With Incremental
Backup on, NEdit periodically writes a full copy
of the file to disk.
- P: Commands added to the
Shell Commands menu (Unix only) don't output anything
until they are finished executing.
S: If the command output is directed to a dialog,
or the input is from a selection, output is collected
together and held until the command completes.
De-select both of the options and the output will
be shown incrementally as the command executes.
- P: Dialogs don't automatically
get keyboard focus when they pop up.
S: Most X Window managers allow you to choose
between two categories of keyboard focus models:
pointer focus, and explicit focus. Pointer focus
means that as you move the mouse around the screen,
the window under the mouse automatically gets
the keyboard focus. NEdit users who use this focus
model should set "Popups Under Pointer"
in the Default Settings sub menu of the preferences
menu in NEdit. Users with the explicit focus model,
in some cases, may have problems with certain
dialogs, such as Find and Replace. In MWM this
is caused by the mwm resource startupKeyFocus
being set to False (generally a bad choice for
explicit focus users). NCDwm users should use
the focus model "click" instead of "explicit",
again, unless you have set it that way to correct
specific problems, this is the appropriate setting
for most explicit focus users.
- P: The Delete key doesn't
forward-delete.
S: See the X
Resources section on nedit.remapDeleteKey.
- P: NEdit crashes when I
try to paste text in to a text field in a dialog
(like Find or Replace) on my SunOS system.
S: On many SunOS systems, you have to set up an
nls directory before various inter-client communication
features of Motif will function properly. There
are instructions in README.sun in /pub/nedit/v4_0_1
on ftp.fnal.gov, as well as a tar file containg
a complete nls directory: ftp://ftp.fnal.gov/pub/
nedit/v4_0_2/individual/README.sun. This contains
directions for setting up an nls directory, which
is required by Motif for handling copy and paste
to Motif text fields.
Known
bugs
Below is the list of known bugs which affect NEdit.
The bugs your copy of NEdit will exhibit depend on
which system you are running and with which Motif
libraries it was built. Note that there are now Motif
1.2 and/or 2.0 libraries available on ALL supported
platforms, and as you can see below there are far
fewer bugs in Motif 1.2, so it is in your best interest
to upgrade your system.
- BUG: Operations between
rectangular selections on overlapping lines do
nothing.
WORKAROUND: None. These operations are very complicated
and you probably wouldn't get what you expected
anyhow.
- BUG: Cut and Paste menu
items fail, or possibly crash, for very large
(multi-megabyte) selections.
WORKAROUND: Use selection copy (middle mouse button
click) for transferring larger quantities of data.
Cut and Paste save the copied text in server memory,
which is usually limited.
Reporting
Bugs
The nedit developers subscribe to both discuss@nedit.org
and develop@nedit.org, either of which may be used
for reporting bugs. If you're not sure, or you think
the report might be of interest to the general nedit
user community, send the report to discuss@nedit.org.
If it's something obvious and boring, like we misspelled
"anemometer" in the on-line help, send it
to develop. If you don't want to subscribe to these
lists, please add a note to your mail about cc'ing
you on responses.
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