Re: xedit segfault on open
Hi Riccardo,
On Thu, 2025-10-16 at 15:32 +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately the one upstream developer who knew the lisp code hasn't
> > been involved in xedit in many years.
>
> Maybe he can still have a look for a beer :)
> I reported the bug so it is tracked at least.
Alan is one of the maintainers taking care of X.Org upstream these days,
so your bug report landed on his desk ;-).
> > Except that we don't ship xedit in Solaris - emacs, vim, nano, & gedit
> > seem to be enough to satisfy our users. (We don't build emacs with the
> > optional tree-sitter support in Solaris, so don't hit problems with its
> > node.js dependency as you do.)
> >
>
> I see, a pity it is not shipped, it is always a handy editor that
> (usually) never fails.
> I prefer vim and emacs usually, but xedit is fast and reliable
> especially over network. And I am without vim and emacs on Linux/sparc,
> that's an issue currently.
FWIW, I have rescheduled emacs on sparc64 and it built successfully, should
be installable again now.
> maybe we should disable tree-sitter, although tree-sitter itself is
> declared to be just POSIX without dependencies, so I wonder how we get
> entabgled in the NodeJS damnation!
I still don't know what tree-sitter is and what's it needed for.
> > I'll see if we can figure this out as spare time allows, but it's not a
> > priority. (As you can see from the new bug being only the third bug
> > reported against xedit in years, it's not widely used today.)
> >
>
> Stable code needs little work! Few bugs isn't always a problem!
Well, stable code will need to be kept buildable with modern compilers and
libraries, so the maintenance costs are never zero, although very little.
Adrian
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