Chris Nandor wrote: > > At 14:15 -0800 2002.12.05, Richard Cook wrote: > >When long lines are printed to STDOUT, and the STDOUT window is not > >large enough to display the entire line, then the STDOUT window scrolls > >something like 1.5 character widths to the right. This happens in the > >current and previous MacPerl releases, but didn't happen before. It > >shouldn't happen at all, right? > > I am not sure what "happens in current and previous releases, but didn't > happen before" means. Aren't releases "before" also "previous"? :) Do > you mean immediately previous to current, i.e., 5.6.1r1? > Sorry, English is not a very precise language. What I meant was that I first noticed this in 5.6.1r1, and now also see it in 5.6.1r2. The version I was using prior to these, MacPerl-5.2.0r4 did not do this.
> And I do know that there have been problems with the output window shifting > to the right in some circumstances in older versions (including MacPerl > 5.2.0r4), and I don't recall that code being modified in my time with it. > There are more-or-less tenative plans to replace the built-in text editor > for MacPerl 5.8.0 beta. That would be nice, tentatively speaking. -Richard
