I've noticed over the years that dtterms can "deteriorate" over time.
Usually I notice this when using vi and find that I can no longer
move freely about the screen. It will redraw thing inappropriately,
add chars where I'm moving the cursor right and such. But I've not
been able to reproduce anything. It just sort of happens. Today
however, I accidentally did vi on fil* which was too imprecise and
I got an object file as my first match on the wildcard. After that
my window doesn't display leading spaces. For example here's a few lines
from the affected window:
************************************************************************
* GLOBAL / NAMED COMMON DECLARATIONS
************************************************************************
EXTERNAL BLKDAT02 !BLKDAT02 includes COMM02_I
EXTERNAL BLKDAT04 !BLKDAT04 includes COMM04_I
EXTERNAL BLKDAT05 !BLKDAT05 includes COMM05_I
but, if I vi from a different window I see:
************************************************************************
* GLOBAL / NAMED COMMON DECLARATIONS
************************************************************************
EXTERNAL BLKDAT02 !BLKDAT02 includes COMM02_I
EXTERNAL BLKDAT04 !BLKDAT04 includes COMM04_I
EXTERNAL BLKDAT05 !BLKDAT05 includes COMM05_I
I tried soft and hard reset on the window, no effect. I did an stty -a
on both and diff'd the output. No differences.
We're on 4.0<nothing) so maybe this is an old bug that's been fixed, but
I didn't see it on a quick search of the archives.
Anyone know why this would act this way? I can close the window and
open another, but if there's a way to correct it in the exisiting
window, it would be marginally faster.
Thanks..
ps - Does anyone else notice that the CDE toolbar migrates slowly to the
lower left corner of an X-tube display?
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Received on Thu Jun 18 1998 - 21:37:58 NZST