nedit compiles and runs fine on ~ppc-macos, provided the attached patch is applied to the ebuild. There doesn't seem to be a test suite. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 260888 [details, diff] Proposed changes for keywording app-editors/nedit ~ppc-macos
+ 21 Feb 2011; Jeremy Olexa <darkside@gentoo.org> + nedit-5.5_p20110116.ebuild: + Fixes for macos, bug 352991 by Johan Hattne Thanks!