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Re: decmips 6.4A: xmh (x11r4) complaints

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu May 10 16:04:08 1990

From: raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: My message of Wed, 09 May 90 15:02:42 -0400.
Date: Thu, 10 May 90 16:03:40 EDT
I sent to bugs a short while ago:

>My xmh process decided at some point that it wanted to rescan `inbox'; the
>only thing I had done shortly prior to that was start to compose a message. 
>Now, I've just started writing this one, and it decided to rescan `drafts'. 
>There are several problems with this:

This is also present in 7.0 on the vax.

>	* When it did so, it dropped a few keystrokes I had typed into this
>	  editor window.  (The "pr" in "prior" didn't come through the first
>	  time.)

I haven't seen this one yet, though I haven't used it enough to know for
sure.

>	* Since I have over 300 messages in `inbox', the rescanning itself is
>	  frustrating.
>	* After it rescans `inbox', it seems to lose track of what my current
>	  message is, and redisplays the top of the TOC window.

These still apply.

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