Re: [vile] longstanding fence buglet

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:02:22AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
> i'm going to let tom decide how he wants to fix this -- either
> the autocolor hook should be kept from running during an
> operator, or it should save/restore the doingopcmd flag.  the
> latter is preferable, i think, but there's probably some other
> stuff (pre_op_dot, post_op_dot) that needs saving/restoring as
> well -- perhaps they should be bundled into an "operator_state"
> structure of some sort.

The latter is preferable - but making it work properly doesn't seem doable.
The problem that I see is that a hook could modify the buffer, and restoring
marks onto that modified buffer would either be a big performance hit,
or rely on assumptions.

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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