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Re: [vile] vile strange behavior in 9.5n


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: [vile] vile strange behavior in 9.5n
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:59:20 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Gary Jennejohn wrote:

Thomas Dickey writes:
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
I've now installed vile and xvile 9.5n under FreeBSD and noticed a change
in its behavior.

I use xvile as the editor for writing my e-mails. The text used to flow
very smoothly but now I see strange hesitations when entering text, as
though xvile is doing spell-checking as I type.

What was the older version?

9.5j. I'm the port maintainer under FreeBSD and just updated to 9.5n yesterday.

ok (I sort of knew that - though I continue running old binaries on platforms where I don't have a good development environment).

Let's see - looking at the changelog:

        9.5n - nothing seems relevant

        9.5m - big change to regular expressions (but not related).

                However, there's a possible change in the libraries used
                for linking (am not sure if this is relevant).  But
                linking explictly against some library that was implicit
                before could cause a change in behavior.  (Usually I see
                that with socket interfaces).

                There's a change to locale initialization (reading the
                diff, it appears to be unrelated).

                Some changes to the way ^X-e works

        9.5l - nothing relevant.  The big change here is to allow multiple
                commands to be passed on the command-line.

It sounds (below) as if you're getting some
effect from the locale support (which has been by default on for a few
years (20021223).  The only recent changes I've made that are specific to
xvile were restructuring the internal interfaces (shouldn't be
user-visible).


I don't have locale set so it should be defaulting to 'C'.

Hmm, maybe something else in ports has changed and I'm now seeing this behavior
for the first time. I've been using vile for a good 10 years and this is the
first time I've been so unpleasantly surprised. I have aspell installed, could
it have something to do with that?

I don't _think_ so. The spell-macro only highlights things, e.g., when typing ^X-i, and offhand I don't see a way it would be invoked via the filter-highlighting, e.g., in autocolor mode.

That part about changing ss sounds like a locale issue.\

If it were only slow-typing, I'd suspect autocolor (which has been default for a while also, presuming "fast" machines).

Of course, you could be seeing a bug that I just don't know about...

Since it's only a handful of versions (9.5k, l, m and n), perhaps you
could isolate it to a patch level.  I'll see if I can reproduce the
problem

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Thomas E. Dickey
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