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Re: [vile] some win32 v9.5i [win]vile feedback
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: [vile] some win32 v9.5i [win]vile feedback |
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Sat, 15 Jul 2006 05:54:43 -0400 (EDT) |
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Clark Morgan wrote:
I use console vile and winvile on an XP PC at work for intense data entry.
I.E., I'm in the editor all day long. Problems:
1) console vile + a newer version of cygwin is completely unsafe. Why?
If you start bash, invoke console vile, and then type ^C (by mistake) in
the editor, console vile is blown away by cygwin (poof--the editor
vanishes). This doesn't happen with older versions of cygwin. Perhaps
this is fixed in a newer version of cygwin, but given this kind of bad
behavior by cygwin/bash, I've washed my hands of using console vile from
the Win32 command line. (No, i'm not ever going back to cmd.exe).
I haven't noticed this (but since upgrading cygwin over the net is
haphazard, I simply download a full set of packages about once a year and
install from _that_).
This version of cygwin (FWIW), doesn't have the ^C bug:
Cygwin DLL version info:
DLL version: 1.5.12
DLL epoch: 19
Build date: Wed Nov 10 08:34:47 EST 2004
I'm using a snapshot from 11 November 2005, sounds like I might want to
see a newer snapshot (perhaps not ;-)
2) winvile 9.5i crashes (faults) occasionally when pasting clipboard data
into a long-lived buffer. I don't have a debugger available at work,
so can't help with this issue. The crashes were a lot more frequent
with earlier versions of post-9.5 winvile, so one of Tom's later 9.5
patches has helped. I compensate by typing :w a lot these days.
hmm - I'm running 9.5h at work, 9.5j at home. At work I'm exercising
clipboard pastes more. I'll update that 9.5h and see if I can flush
something out. I see buffer-related fixes in 9.5i and 9.5j - this one
may apply to you:
+ fix a case in bsizes() which subtracted line-ending from zero-sized
buffer when nonewline mode was set (Debian #368007).
3) today, when typing ^G in a long-lived buffer, winvile reported
(crude paraphrasing):
@ line 255 of 9
what the hell (I thought to myself)? So, I typed :w and truncated
my data file to 9 lines. Thank goodness for the dos/win32 .bak feature.
FYI.
- Clark
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