Re: [screen-devel] Patches (and vert. splits)

[William Pursell]

Samir Unni wrote:
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 1:44 PM, William Pursell <address@hidden 
<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>     Please note that the fFtT patch was superseded by another submitted
>     to the mailing list Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:01:13 +0100.
>     (The version in git has at least one serious bug. )
>
>
> What bug is that? I know there's an issue with certain programs 
> (namely man and elinks) outputting text that overflows onto other 
> windows when vertical splitting is used. Is that the bug you're 
> referring to? 

I don't recall the details, but certain key sequences
are mishandled.  For example, '2h3fa' should move
up two lines and then forward to the 3rd a, but instead
the h is ignored and the cursor is moved to the 23rd
f and then the 'a' is interpreted as a command.