Finally, after several false (re)starts, the BeOS port of the editor AbiWord got some patches commited, by Daniel Furrer. From the AbiWord Weekly News:

Daniel Furrer steps forward to be the first to commit some actual code to BeOS. It still doesn't yet, but it might in time for the new developers' build!
I swear, if something didn't come in soon, I was going to declare it dead, and lord knows what I would have said about all those previously anxious would-have-been-but-didn't-do-anything developers. I'm sure Daniel would love some help.

Indeed, some help would be more than appreciated I'm sure. But it's a step in the right direction. Great job Daniel (with that name, what else was to be expected...).