when I try rpming the latest ver of nedit (5.0.2), I keep getting failed dependency messages to do with LessTif
nedit was written to use motif/lesstif, so you must install both to get nedit.
There's a newer version of nedit : nedit-5.1.1-1.glibc.i386.rpm available from http://www.nedit.org (maybe statically linked with some kind of Motif library) which doesn't need any extra rpm to work.