vt(4) issues on 11.0-BETA3 (Actually 11-STABLE)
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Fri Aug 5 03:41:00 UTC 2016
On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 3. After one port erred on the build, I scrolled back to select the list of
> ports still to be built (a portmaster(8) feature) and try to paste it into
> the same window or a different one. I get a totally different region. Since
> the list spanned several lines due to line wrap, I got a bunch of other
> lines, no doubt from some other part of the buffer. I have a hunch that
> this is tied to the fact that a great many lines of output get wrapped into
> multiple lines on the display and the arithmetic of what is selected goes
> awry. (Just a guess, though.)
Yes. I submitted a patch to have portmaster save the output also to a
file in /tmp because of this. It's not in the latest port, I think.
I'd attach it, but it's on a machine that is under some books and a
failed hard drive awaiting shipment.
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