Re: a curious beep when selecting and replacing text in nedit
Re: a curious beep when selecting and replacing text in nedit
- Subject: Re: a curious beep when selecting and replacing text in nedit
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 16:14:05 -0700
On Jun 4, 2009, at 14:34, Vernon Williams wrote:
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.
Interesting. The problem may be that beep just used to not work at
all. I'm not sure if the beep support was fixed in 10.5.7 or in
10.5.5, but it was certainly not functional in earlier versions.
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.
Right. That is expected.
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.
Interesting. The beep was working on Tiger.
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?
It was recently fixed. I believe it worked in Tiger, but the beep was
recently re-added to Leopard. I'm curious about what is causing the
beep. I cannot reproduce the problem using nedit-5.5 from MacPorts.
Can you please give detailed steps to reproduce the problem?
Thanks,
Jeremy
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