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  • Re: Is anybody working on nedit?

    From The Wanderer@3:633/10 to All on Friday, January 30, 2026 03:10:01
    On 2026-01-29 at 20:51, Van Snyder wrote:
    Is anybody working on nedit?
    According to the changelog of the version in unstable, the last upstream release (that's made it into Debian, anyway) came out in 2017.
    The package Homepage: field lists
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/nedit/, which shows the most recent
    commit as having been in November of 2020.
    If there is development happening on it, it's apparently not happening
    in public in the known upstream location. It's private, it's in a fork,
    or it's just not happening at all.
    It doesn't look up the available printers and provide a list of
    them. When I enter the printer name from my printer settings widget,
    it prints on the wrong one. It adds the "-t" option to lpr, which is
    no longer supported and produces a warning message, and tries to
    specify the printer using the "-d" option, which no longer works.
    Sounds like something that'd be ripe for a new upstream maintainer!
    (Unless there already is one and the Debian package maintainer just
    hasn't switched, of course.)
    --
    The Wanderer
    The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
    persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
    progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw


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