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Re: [vile] missing initial one-line help


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: [vile] missing initial one-line help
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:09:01 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 08:54:52PM -0500, Paul Fox wrote:
> thomas wrote:
>  > On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 06:05:40PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>  > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:40:06AM -0500, Paul Fox wrote:
>  > > > there's a problem with startup messages that i don't understand,
>  > > > after a few minutes looking at the code.
>  > > > 
>  > > > when vile starts, it's supposed to show this message (main.c:945)
>  > > >        msg = "[Use ^A-h, ^X-h, or :help to get help]";
>  > 
>  > This message was obscured sometime before 9.4 (I just checked).
>  > So it's been a while - wasn't the vileopts change.
>  > I could dig further and see, but that's still a while ago.
>  > 
>  > However, since the string's still there, I'm reasonably sure it was
>  > unintentional - just surprised that it took a while to notice.
> 
> heh.  yeah, that was a while ago.  i guess i don't actually need
> the help much.  :-)   it was funny when i remembered it, thinking
> to myself, "hey, didn't vile have a little help phrase on startup?
> hmm, no it doesn't seem to...".  amusing.
> 
>  > 
>  > I've made changes in my ongoing fixes to restore those in the
>  > normal flow - will see how those work out.
> 
> okay.  clearly not a big deal!

no problem.  It was only about 2 hours to investigate the two and work
out a fix (and since -I think- I'm near the end of 9.8g changes, it seemed
worth checking on).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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