2009/1/8 _sc_ <[email protected]>: > > On Thursday 08 January 2009 2:08 pm, björn wrote: >> >> This is what I did: go to the Vim 'src/' folder and type ":grep a *.c" >> (to the people using MacVim: don't try this at the moment, there is a >> bug which will cause MacVim to beachball -- I am working on fixing > > excuse me, but what's "beachball" mean? am i to picture a > beachball caught by the wind bouncing away from me so fast > there's no way i can catch it?
On a Mac when an app is unresponsive the mouse cursor is replaced by a colorful round spinning ball that is commonly referred to as a "beachball". Hence phrases such as "the application beachballed" are used to indicate that the application is unresponsive. ;-) >> First of all, can somebody on a *nix machine (not Mac) test to see if >> they can break the above grep operation in GUI mode (_not_ in console >> mode, everything works fine there) and tell me if they are able to >> interrupt the grep operation. If so, I guess this is Mac specific but > > i am on suse linux 10.2 -- my gvim is 7.2.79, including the > relative number patch from markus heidelberg > > if ctrl-c is supposed to halt this search, it does not, not > for me -- i tried ctrl-s too, to no avail > > i tried hitting the close window button with the mouse, and > it took several hits before i got a kwin dialog telling me > the window was not responding, and giving me the option of > terminating it -- taking the terminate option in this dialog > does indeed close the window, by virtue of kde sending the > kill command, but that seems a rather extreme stoppage Thanks, then it most likely is as I suspected: that loop is missing a break check. I'll prepare a patch. Björn --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
