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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
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Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 15:21:53 +0000
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Subject: RHIDE News 2
CC: Vik Heyndrickx <Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be>,
        Brett Porter <bporter AT rabble DOT uow DOT edu DOT au>
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  This mail is to communicate about a bug in RHIDE 1.4 an prior versions
that I killed last week:

Vik Heyndrickx <Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be> wrote: (18 Sep 1997)
>> Brett Porter <bporter AT rabble DOT uow DOT edu DOT au> wrote:
>> > > *** Brett *** <bporter AT rabble DOT uow DOT edu DOT au> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Okay, this is a strange one, and it appears to happen rather randomly.
>> > > > [stuff about weird bug]
>> >
>> > Create a new file (or use an existing one if you must, it always happens)
>> > Make sure you are not in the first line (press enter a few times)
>> > Press these keys:
>> >
>> > <TAB>if<SPACE>(<SPACE><UPARROW><DOWNARROW>And then type anything here.
>>
>> I tried with RHIDE 1.2 and 1.3c and with the v0.3.9 of the editor. I 
couldn't
>> reproduce it. What RHIDE are you using?, can you send me a .gpr and .gdt 
where
>> you can reproduce it?
>> The problem can be related to the fact that the editor removes the space you
>> typed before moving. I need a desktop file because there are some things 
that
>> can affect: Tab mode and tab size.
>
>Hi SET,
>
>Brett is right. I've this problem too. It pops up occasionally. It
>doesn't have anything to do with the screen mode. It happens in 80x25
>too. I think that the editor options of Brett and me are different from
>yours. Im not at home at this right moment, so I cannot give them
>exactly as they are to you, but I believe I changed the TAB size to 2
>and checked the use TABS option. I might have altered other options too.
>
>Hope this helps.

  But was after chating with Peter Palotas alias Blizzar --
blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se in the IRC when I was able to reproduce it. The
bug is in the "Optimal Fill" option and was killed just a day before
RHIDE 1.4 was out so 1.4 have it.
  Another side effect of this bug can be experimented setting: real tabs +
tab size = 8 + Optimal fill on and typing "that is a test line " until you
reach the column 90 (aprox.) you'll see that 1 character seems to jump
beyond the cursor.

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