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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
Organization: INTI
To: Brett Porter <bporter AT rabble DOT uow DOT edu DOT au>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP)
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 15:06:54 +0000
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Brett Porter <bporter AT rabble DOT uow DOT edu DOT au> wrote:

> >   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.
> > 
> 
> So, is it fixed in 1.4 or not?
NO, 1.4 was out the same day I fixed it and Robert is at more than 10000 km 
from my home ;-).

> I just downloaded it and have not used it
> yet. I only used tab size 3, but it still has the same effect. You type to
> about 90 columns and then it moves the cursor on you.
Because the bug is there, the main purposse of the mail was to act as a 
warning.

> Thanks for finding and fixing it anyway, it was getting kind of annoying :)
> 
> You talked about using IRC... is that the #djgpp channel, or another? Every
> time I go to #djgpp nobody is there.
In what IRC Net?, I ever found people in EFNet (I just checked now, and at 
least the bots are there ;-). I guess you tried DalNet.

Greetings, SET 
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