Hi Owen,
nedit is my favorite editor, so my first thought is always, hmm ... 
maybe we can.
The problem is, that by your own arguments, we can't put 5.5 in the next 
  minor release.
Why?
Let's say we put it in Scientific Linux 4.2.  Then all of the machines 
with 4.2, will have nedit 5.5, and all the ones on with 4.1 and 4.0 will 
have 5.4.  And if these two versions of nedit clash ... well then a 
large set of people are now going to have several machines with both 
versions, and they are going to have problems all over.

So, currently, the best we can do is put it in the contrib section if 
you get us an rpm for nedit 5.5.

Troy

Owen Synge wrote:
> Debian Stable has Nedit 5.5 and this version and the previous version
> clash if run on the same Xserver breaking CtrlC, CtrlV in combination
> please could we upgrade the Scientific Linux version to 5.5 in the next
> release as this is very annoying. Also I find Nedit far better when
> linked to motif than Lestif.
> 
> Unfortunately Nedit developers don't seem to distribute SRPM's
> 
> Regards
> 
> Owen Synge
> 
> 
> 
> NEdit news
> 
> 2004-10-13 - NEdit 5.5
> 
>     The NEdit team is pleased to announce NEdit 5.5.
> 
>     Improvements over NEdit 5.4 include:
> 
>         * Tabbed windows for working with multiple documents in one
> window
>         * Find and Clear buttons for the interactive search bar
>         * Improved Latex & Python syntax highlighting patterns
>         * Simpler configuration for auto-scrolling
>         * Improvements to the macro language
>         * Efficiency improvements and bug fixes
> 
>     Improvements over NEdit 5.5RC2 include:
> 
>         * Detaching tabs should now use the default window size for the
> new window
>         * Detaching/moving non-top tab does not change top tab.
>         * Less confusing wording in the File->New XXX menu items
> 
>     See the ReleaseNotes file (included in the distribution) for more
> details.
> 
>     Executables for a variety of platforms can be downloaded over http
> or ftp. The source code is also available via http or ftp.
> 
>     As always, we value your feedback. For that you can use the familiar
> mailing lists or the SourceForge bug tracker.


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