[markh]

I know of the XNedit fork (https://github.com/unixwork/xnedit). I looked at the specific bit of code that is causing the issue and it is there as well. That was very likely as the commits that I mentioned were from 2003 (long before the fork).

hamei: What you are referring to is to set sgiMode to true. This is in the app-defaults file that I mentioned. As far as I can tell all the changes Sgi made to make it look good are in this file. The problem is that someone added code to NEdit to try to interpret the values set in it for some GUI elements and it doesn't understand the SGI_DYNAMIC stuff and then falls back to the color black. Disabling the calls to SetColors in window.c "fixes" it.

Regarding what was added in newer versions, you can check https://sourceforge.net/p/nedit/git/ci/m...leaseNotes
The biggest feature seems to be window tabs which was added in 5.5.

Thanks for the tip for a Nekoware version of NEdit. I found that there was a 5.5 version packaged. I have downloaded it (from https://web.archive.org/web/201707150053.../nekoware/) and will have a look at how that one was compiled.