Re: [vile] some win32 v9.5i [win]vile feedback

[Thomas Dickey]

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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