[7797] in SIPB bug reports
Cursor placement on exit bug with new vim 5.8, and comment about exmh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Wed Jul 18 04:32:45 2001
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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 04:32:42 -0400
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
Since vim 5.8 was installed, I've been experiencing an odd bug where the
cursor is not always placed at the beginning of the line (and the prompt is
thus also not at the beginning of the line) upon exit. I've finally
characterized what triggers the bug, and it seems reliably reproduceable on at
least Solaris and Linux:
If the ruler is on (:set ruler) at the time you exit, and if since the last
time it was turned on, you have scrolled down far enough that the initial text
on the left side of the status line (usually filename and number of lines)
disappears, when you exit your prompt will be displayed starting where the
current line number is printed on the ruler. This bug didn't exist in the
previously installed version.
Also, re the bug Bob Basch recently reported with exmh, I can certify that it
has nothing to do with Athena 9.0. It has exhibited this behavior since
before I began using it. It doesn't choke immediately upon token expiration,
and does continue to work normally if you get new tokens before it chokes,
however, if you don't (it seems to average 30-60 minutes after expiration), it
seems unable to recover. The message you see in the terminal from which you
invoked it informs you that it's suspended for tty input. Hopefully this is
useful info - I was never ambitious enough to report it, but it'd be great if
it were fixable.
Mitch
