Re: [vile] vile-9.6j.patch.gz

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Chris G wrote:

> OK, I have now installed a completely clean vile 9.6j on my fedora 7
> system at work.  It's a new installation (since the disk failure) so
> it's a complete build and install from scratch.
>
> After remembering to add the "set file-encoding=utf-8" vile is now
> working OK with utf-8 pound signs, thank you!
>
> There is one minor issue, iso-8859-1 pound signs cause some confusion.
> They are displayed as pound signs but confuse the cursor positioning.
> Shouldn't they be shown as 'invalid character'?

The cursor positioning should (is supposed to) work.

For testing this set of changes, I made a test-file using xterm and typing 
each combination of meta+[a-zA-Z].  That doesn't include the pound sign,
but it should be in the same 160-255 range.

Perhaps there's something amiss with the character-class for the pound 
sign - will see.

(by the way - on Solaris I got good results using the terminfo driver.
curses might work if it's linked with the xpg4 library, though I know
that library has some breakage in the time-delays).

> Now to patch all my viles to 9.6j!

at the moment there's a tarball in

        ftp://invisible-island.net/temp

which is fully patched.  (binaries are a different matter).

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