svn commit: r196818 - head/contrib/ee

Andrey Chernov ache at nagual.pp.ru
Fri Sep 4 15:02:35 UTC 2009


On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 04:50:05PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
> * Andrey Chernov <ache at nagual.pp.ru> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:32:14PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
> > > Even though I really appreciate fixes/cleanups to ee(1), I think changes
> > > like these should be sent to its maintainer as well. Have you done this?
> > 
> > Yes.
> 
> Great! The reason why I was being a little negative, is because I
> noticed the previous version of ee(1) we had, had a lot of local patches
> that were very hard to merge. It turned out most of the features were
> implemented upstream as well, albeit differently.
> 
> It's nice to see someone step up to hunt down bugs in ee(1).

I got no reply from the author yet, lets wait.
Ctype stuff there was in pre-POSIX (and even pre-BSD4.3) old times state, 
but luckily enough it affect only several edge cases in FreeBSD.
Most unpleasant bug which was the reason I start to look there was all 
8bit chars highlighting due to passing negative chars to waddch().

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