On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Philip Webb wrote: > 020102 Thomas Dickey wrote: > > for the moment, I'm assuming the 'g' problem was introduced > > by the multiline highlighting changes > > which I'd like to get stable before doing much else that's complicated. > > I can see some trash on the screen under Slackware > > but the program doesn't stop (but at least there's something ... ). > > just once IIRC, `123g' worked but wrote a garbage line near top of screen.
...and when I compile the win32 version in debug mode, it does the same thing (deposits trash on the line where the cursor was, but doesn't crash). > > > Under Debian (stable) there's no sign of any problem. > > I did most of the debugging for the last patch on Debian. > > a gentle suggestion: recent reports via Linux Today advise > that the distribution (statistical) of Linux distributions is > Mandrake & RedHat c 35 % ea , SUSE c 20 % > and others incl Debian & Slackware <= 5 % ea . > perhaps you should test primarily with a more commonly used distribution? Given the (lack of) quality for Redhat, I'll continue treating it as a secondary platform for development. -- T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
