Re: [vile] utf-8 and vile 9.61

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Chris G wrote:
>
> > If I edit a file with vile and enter pound characters it doesn't work
> > properly, vile gets its cursor positioning confused and the characters
> > actually written to file are not utf-8 pound characters.
>
> I see the general problem of the positioning:  when vile reads the UTF-8 
> characters that correspond to the Latin-1 range, it has to decide if they can 
> be represented as single-column characters.  That's working fine on 
> _display_, but there's a bug in the keyboard part of it, so it's moving the 
> cursor as if it is really a multibyte character (will fix...).

Here's the fix - vile now has functions for inserting/deleting either
_bytes_ or _characters_:

diff -u -r1.160 insert.c
--- insert.c    2008/01/13 15:59:30     1.160
+++ insert.c    2008/03/19 22:57:50
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@
                if (isbackspace(c)) {   /* vi beeps here */
                    s = TRUE;   /* replaced with nothing */
                } else {
-                   t = s = lins_bytes(n, c);
+                   t = s = lins_chars(n, c);
                }
            }
        }
@@ -884,7 +884,7 @@
     }

     autoindented = -1;
-    return lins_bytes(1, c);
+    return lins_chars(1, c);
 }

 #if ! SMALLER


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