Re: [dev] sbase: ed

2020-11-28 Thread spaceman
Whoops, I withdraw my complaint. Should have checked the basics before I talked. This is a packaging error. Sorry to waste your time and mine. Regards, spaceman

Re: [dev] sbase: ed

2020-11-28 Thread Quentin Rameau
> Hi, Hi Spaceman, > When compiled with musl-gcc (latest) on Slackware 14.2 this: > > static void > dowrite(const char *fname, int trunc) > { > … > printf("%zu\n", bytecount); > } > > does not work for me (it outputs a blank line). Given my rudimentary > knowledge of C and looking up

[dev] sbase: ed

2020-11-28 Thread spaceman
Hi, When compiled with musl-gcc (latest) on Slackware 14.2 this: static void dowrite(const char *fname, int trunc) { … printf("%zu\n", bytecount); } does not work for me (it outputs a blank line). Given my rudimentary knowledge of C and looking up on stackoverflow this does work.

Re: [dev] [sbase] [ed] A couple of notes

2020-04-05 Thread Michael Forney
On 2020-03-22, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: > Maybe it's an idea to just place issues in a TODO file in the repository? That's a good idea, thanks. I added a section with the issues reported by Cág, some existing items from ed.c, and a few others I have noticed.

Re: [dev] [sbase] [ed] A couple of notesy

2020-03-25 Thread k0ga
Hi, As the original author of ed I have to apologize about this kind of errors. I didn;t have so much time to finalize it, and there is a list of known bugs in the header of the file. I would recomend to add new known bugs to the the list and them let to new people to fix them. I think the code

Re: [dev] [sbase] [ed] A couple of notes

2020-03-22 Thread Cág
Michael Forney wrote: > Sometimes people just don't have the time to investigate the issue and > come up with a fix. It could even be that the fix involves more > complex restructuring of the rest of the code. Hello Michael, Thanks for understanding. There's definitely a lack of time on my

Re: [dev] [sbase] [ed] A couple of notes

2020-03-22 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 05:01:05PM -0700, Michael Forney wrote: > On 2020-03-21, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: > > What kind of tracker? > > Did you see my other reply? > https://lists.suckless.org/dev/2003/33827.html > I didn't see it. > >I think discussions of suckless projects should stay > > on

Re: [dev] [sbase] [ed] A couple of notes

2020-03-22 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 02:59:12PM -0700, Michael Forney wrote: > On 2020-03-17, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: > > Where is the patch? > > I know it's contrary to the opinion of a lot of people here, but > personally, I have no issue with bug reports without a patch. > Sometimes people just don't have

Re: [dev] [sbase] [ed] A couple of notes

2020-03-22 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 14:59:12 -0700 Michael Forney wrote: Dear Michael, > I know it's contrary to the opinion of a lot of people here, but > personally, I have no issue with bug reports without a patch. > Sometimes people just don't have the time to investigate the issue and > come up with a

Re: [dev] [sbase] [ed] A couple of notes

2020-03-21 Thread Michael Forney
On 2020-03-21, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: > What kind of tracker? Did you see my other reply? https://lists.suckless.org/dev/2003/33827.html >I think discussions of suckless projects should stay > on the mailinglist and/or IRC, not an external bugtracker or something. Would suckless.org consider

Re: [dev] [sbase] [ed] A couple of notes

2020-03-21 Thread Michael Forney
On 2020-03-17, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: > Where is the patch? I know it's contrary to the opinion of a lot of people here, but personally, I have no issue with bug reports without a patch. Sometimes people just don't have the time to investigate the issue and come up with a fix. It could even be

Re: [dev] [sbase] [ed] A couple of notes

2020-03-21 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 03:02:04PM -0700, Michael Forney wrote: > On 2020-03-17, Cág wrote: > > There are a couple things I've come across the > > sbase's version of ed: > > 1. w doesn't print the byte count. Suppose a sample > > ed session (using P to distinguish my input from ed's > > output):

Re: [dev] [sbase] [ed] A couple of notes

2020-03-21 Thread Michael Forney
On 2020-03-17, Cág wrote: > There are a couple things I've come across the > sbase's version of ed: > 1. w doesn't print the byte count. Suppose a sample > ed session (using P to distinguish my input from ed's > output): > % ed > P > *a > milk > bread > eggs > meat > veggies > bananas > apples >

Re: [dev] [sbase] [ed] A couple of notes

2020-03-17 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 11:25:25AM -0400, Cág wrote: > I must admit I only use ed(1) (of sbase) these days. > It has been like this for a year or so. > > There are a couple things I've come across the > sbase's version of ed: > 1. w doesn't print the byte count. Suppose a sample > ed session

[dev] [sbase] [ed] A couple of notes

2020-03-17 Thread Cág
I must admit I only use ed(1) (of sbase) these days. It has been like this for a year or so. There are a couple things I've come across the sbase's version of ed: 1. w doesn't print the byte count. Suppose a sample ed session (using P to distinguish my input from ed's output): % ed P *a milk