It might be wise if someone from the NEdit project would review the Cygwin/X NEdit package. The goal would be to determine if the Cygwin/X NEdit package has any common or easily detectable platform-dependent bugs.
I don't use windows/cygwin so I can't really comment on platform-dependent bugs, but I can comment on platform *independent* bugs, namely building with the wrong version of Lesstif/Open Motif. As long as you aren't bypassing any warnings when building NEdit 5.4 (e.g. defining BUILD_BROKEN_NEDIT) things should be fine on this account.
Cheers, -n8
P.S. Props to you for keeping your cool when dealing with the XFree86 project. Very professional. Too bad the same can't be said for them.
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