[9489] in Athena Bugs
olc/more interaction
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (vanharen@MIT.EDU)
Thu Jun 18 09:46:41 1992
From: vanharen@MIT.EDU
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: carla@MIT.EDU, mhpower@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 92 09:46:17 BST
Bug occurs on DecStations, both 7.3 and 7.4 release...
What were you trying to do?
view the topics inside OLC (using "topics ?")
What's wrong:
lines with tabs don't get expanded correctly if the MORE env.
var contains "-c" (ie. "-c" or "-cs" or "-csd", etc.)
for the 7.4 release, a new topic "afs" was created, and the
comment on that line was tabbed over instead of using spaces.
actually there were 2 tabs and 2 spaces used, in order to line
up with everything else. all the other topic lines used spaces.
with MORE set to "-c", listing the topics in olc showed that the
"afs" line did not line up with the rest -- the 2 *spaces* were
missing. more'ing the file directly from the command-line with
"more -c" worked correctly, so this definitely has something to
do with the way olc frobs with the terminal, or possibly
something weird going on in some dec library or something.
(I copied the topics file to my homedir and went to a decstation
to try it.)
work-around was to replace the tabs with spaces in the topics
file.
What should have happened:
it should have worked.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
n/a.
