Re: GNU Parallel Bug Reports Bug in 'parallel -uXj1 vim'

[Ole Tange]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Gary Johnson <address@hidden> wrote:

> I recently updated parallel on a couple of my Linux systems from
> version 20100922 to version 20150222.  I soon discovered that using
> parallel to run vim with a list of files from stdin no longer works
> properly.

It seems you are right.

This is one of the features I have been unable to make an automated test
for and which I rarely use myself. If you find a way to do automatic
testing of that, I would be happy to include that in the testsuite.

Here are my findings:

OK: ls *.1 | parallel-20100922 -uXj1 vi
OK: ls *.1 | parallel-20101122 -uXj1 vi
Terminal wrong: ls *.1 | parallel-20101222 -uXj1 vi
OK: ls *.1 | parallel-20101222 --tty -X vi
OK: ls *.1 | parallel-20141022 --tty -X vi
Broken: ls *.1 | parallel-20141122 --tty -X vi

So there is a change in 20101222 that causes the terminal to go wrong
(but --tty still works). It is likely that this cannot be fixed. And
there is a change in 20141122 that breaks --tty, which ought to be
fixable.

See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?44476 for future updates.

Thanks for your report.


/Ole