I've come across a rather strange bug while trying to use a variable inside
a $"".
alias buggy {
timer 1 set status_user22 foo
local foo Enter something:
local bar $"$foo"
}
alias notbuggy {
timer 1 set status_user22 foo
local foo $"Enter something:"
}
(STATUS_USER22 is not displayed on any of my status bars, incidentally.)
In /buggy, when the timer expires, the input prompt vanishes until one of
refresh_{inputline,screen,status} happens. In /notbuggy, it doesn't.
Line 198 of input.c in EPIC4-1.0.1 calls expand_alias() to expand any
variables etc. in the prompt. It normally works fine, but for some reason,
after a SET STATUS_* command, it ceases to expand until the next time a
refresh is done. I suspect that the execution of the timer's block of code
somehow disturbs the block of code doing input, but since I can't figure
out how EPIC tracks what block of code it's executing, I'm really just
guessing.
I tested EPIC4pre2.504 through EPIC4-1.1.1; all display the bug.
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