Re: [Nano-devel] Bug in ^W

[Robert D. Goulding]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, David Benbennick wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:21:08AM -0400, Robert D. Goulding wrote:
> > nano 1.1.11:  Compiled options: --enable-extra --disable-mouse
> > --enable-color --enable-multibuffer --enable-nanorc
> >
> > Enter a line of text, and hit ^W.  Enter a word which does not appear in
> > the text.  After this, *any* key input will produce control-characters in
> > the buffer window
>
> Attached is a patch to fix this.  Thanks for finding the bug.
>
Thanks - that's fixed!
>
> For your spell checker bug: maybe the problems don't happen if the cursor
> starts out at the beginning of the line?  I don't know about the specific
> behavior you describe, but some spell checker bugs are fixed by the big
> patch at http://www.math.cornell.edu/~dbenbenn/nano/nano.patch.
>
>
I'll try it and see if the problem goes away.  BTW, when do all the
patches I see mentioned on the list get submitted to CVS?  Hardly anything
has been added since 1.1.11 was released.

Robert.