a curious beep when selecting and replacing text in nedit
a curious beep when selecting and replacing text in nedit
- Subject: a curious beep when selecting and replacing text in nedit
- From: Vernon Williams <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 16:34:58 -0500
Thursday, June 3, 2009, 3:26pm
I upgraded to Leopard a few days ago, and after a bit of
effort everything is now working fine.
However, I just noticed one curiosity, not a real problem,
but a minor annoyance.
When editing a file with Nedit, if I select some text and then
type some new text to replace it, it beeps, which it never
used to do before. I can live with it, but I find it a bit jarring
while editing and would prefer it not happen.
When I go into the X11 preferences, toggling the "Use
system alert effect" button in the Output section changes
the sound of the beep, but it is still there.
This is not from any change in nedit, since I am still using
the same nedit executable file that I built from source 7 years
ago (June 5, 2002), before Apple even had an X11 for the
Mac, while I was still using X11 stuff from Tenon Systems,
when I was still on OS X 10.1. This did not happen on
any previous version of OS X I have used this same nedit
binary on, which includes Jaguar and Panther on my G5
and Tiger on my Intel MacBook Pro.
When I was using nedit at work on Sun workstations a few
years ago, it never did this, either.
nedit did (and does) still have other beeps, like when you
try to edit a read only file, but never this before.
Is this some X11 feature that was never implemented (or
never implemented properly before) that is now in X11
for Leopard, or what?
As I said, I can live with this, but would prefer not to. If
anybody happens to have any suggestions for getting
rid of this beep, I would be most appreciative.
Vernon Williams
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