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7.4G edsc bugs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard J. Barbalace)
Fri Jul 10 06:35:36 1992
To: testers@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 92 06:35:09 EDT
From: Richard J. Barbalace <rjbarbal@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Hello.
Here's some rather special behavior I've noticed in edsc for 7.4G (running
on hodge, a DEC3100). Normally when one presses "n" after the last unread
meeting, edsc will cycle the cursor to the beginning of the meetings list
and place it at the first unread meeting. However when I try this now,
"n" correctly cycles to the beginning only every other time the cursor is at
the end of the list. (Try holding down on "n" and let the key repeat until
you pass the end of the list a few times.)
Every other time the cursor approaches the end of the meetings list, my
listing looks like this:
.....
postscript_hacks, pshack
c Network Conifguration, netconf [my last meeting]
Flags Meeting name
----- ------------
New_Meetings, new_meetings
Everybody, eve
Athena_MSGS, msgs
Athena_Notes, anotes
Athena Bugs, bugs, bugs@athena.mit.edu
SIPB bug reports, bug-sipb
....
If I try to go past the netconf meeting with "n", and then try to goto any
meeting with "g", I get this error in my minibuffer:
Args out of range: [(0 "New_Meetings" "new_meetings") (0 "Everybody" "eve") (0
The next time I pass the end of the (corrupt) meetings list, the list again
becomes fine and I can goto meetings normally. After another cycle, the list
is again broken. I've never seen anything like this behavior before.
Ahem. Chad Brown <yandros> and I have reported this bug a total of 3 times.
Here's a fourth since it appears to me that edsc is getting worse instead
of better.
I reported this bug for 7.4E, but apparently it's still crawling around,
and I didn't receive any response regarding it.
After going to a meeting ("g") and reading its last transaction, the user
presses "l" to relist the meetings. Pressing "l" should update the list
so that the meeting just exited no longer has a "c" flag. Also, the cursor
should move down to the next changed meeting, if any.
However, edsc in 7.4 does NOT update the meetings list upon exiting a meeting.
Instead, the meeting whose last transaction has been read still is listed
with a "c" flag; also, the cursor does not move to the next changed meeting.
Please, please, pretty please with maple syrup on it (or anything else you
like), please fix this so I won't have to send you any more bug reports.
Thanks.
- Richard
