On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 03:08:48PM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 at 09:33, Robert Sturrock <rob...@sturrock.id.au> wrote: > > read(0x4, "/Users/rns/tmp/fortune-cookie.txt\n\n\0", 0x2000) = > > 35 0 > > write(0x1, "/Users/rns/tmp/fortune-cookie.txt\n\n\n\0", 0x24) = > > 36 0 > > That looks pretty much what I would expect vileserv to do: it reads > from the socket, and writes to stdout, which is a pipe to the running > vile instance. > > > Any clues as to where the issue might be or how I might be better debug > > this? I suspect I’m missing some obvious here! > > Not quite sure what's going on. You could also trace the vile > process, where you should see a corresponding read from the pipe. > > In addition to that, I'd start putting some print statements into the > readfiles subroutine in Vileserv.pm. Anything sent to stdout there > should appear in the messages buffer. Make sure to ":set pm" first to > cause that buffer to popup. > > Then just put lines in to see what's going wrong, say adding: > > print "Entering readfiles\n"; > > at the start of that subroutine (line 171), then: > > print "Got file $fileName\n"; > > after the "chomp $fileName;" statement. Keep adding statements until > you find what is not working as expected. > > About the only thing which springs to mind that may be a problem is > that the code uses newlines to delimit lines, and Macs at some point > used carriage returns. Probably not the case since OS X though. > > One unrelated, and slightly annoying thing that I noticed is that > printing to the minibuffer now elicits a warning. Must look into what > changed in more recent Perl versions. > > :perl use warnings; print "foo\n"; > > for example produces a warning about an uninitialised value, almost > certainly in the guts of perl.xs. I'll maybe poke at that over > Christmas.
I haven't gotten to this either - I'm currently investigating Chris Green's report, expecting to complete that this week (so far, looks like a small change to map.c which could be applied to 9.8x in Debian). Perhaps I'll do something with this as well. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net
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