Re: [vile] vile strange behavior in 9.5n

[Thomas Dickey]

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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