Topic: bug with pasting into a continuation line (1 of 3), Read 20 times
Conf: Basic editing, Block operations
From: Rich Hureau
Date: Monday, August 01, 2005 08:48 AM

I have a recurring problem (bug) with Vedit involving pasting the clipboard into a line, when the line is wrapped as a "continuation" line (with the continuation character at the beginning of the line).

If you paste into the LAST virtual line of a continuation line (the line is the FINAL line with a "-" in column 1), and the paste causes the line to continue onto a new continuation line (an extra added continuation line now which should have a "-" in column 1), the screen display gets corrupted, with the added line not reading correctly, and not having a "-" in column 1. This is remedied by paging down and then up, getting the screen to refresh.

I always use continuation lines for editing stuff like HTML, and find it better than standard word wrap. This bug, although I'm kind of used to it now, can be pretty startling and confusing.

I'm using Vedit 32-bit, ver 6.13.1, 01/25/05 date. Windows XP, sp2. I think it does this under all Windows versions and I think the bug has been there for awhile. I just haven't figured out its exact description till now.

My significant settings from the Config screen:
Word Processing:
Display lines with wordwrap: unchecked
Enable word wrap: unchecked

Display Options:
Horizontal Scroll margin: 1 (this is the important setting)
Horizontal scroll increment: 20

 


Topic: Re: bug with pasting into a continuation line (2 of 3), Read 19 times
Conf: Basic editing, Block operations
From: Fritz Heberlein
Date: Monday, August 01, 2005 09:48 AM

If you paste into the LAST virtual line of a continuation line (the line
is the FINAL line with a "-" in column 1), and the paste causes the line
to continue onto a new continuation line (an extra added continuation
line now which should have a "-" in column 1), the screen display gets
corrupted, with the added line not reading correctly, and not having a
"-" in column 1.

I tried to replicate this using your settings under Win2000, but without
"success".

Fritz

 


Topic: Re: bug with pasting into a continuation line (3 of 3), Read 20 times
Conf: Basic editing, Block operations
From: Christian Ziemski
Date: Monday, August 01, 2005 12:13 PM

On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 08:48:00 -0400, Rich Hureau wrote:

>I have a recurring problem (bug) with Vedit involving pasting the
>clipboard into a line, when the line is wrapped as a "continuation"
>line (with the continuation character at the beginning of the line).
>
>If you paste into the LAST virtual line of a continuation line (the
>line is the FINAL line with a "-" in column 1), and the paste causes
>the line to continue onto a new continuation line (an extra added
>continuation line now which should have a "-" in column 1), the
>screen display gets corrupted, with the added line not reading
>correctly, and not having a "-" in column 1. This is remedied by
>paging down and then up, getting the screen to refresh.

I can confirm that.

It most times happens when pasting in the middle of the last
continuation line.
But it doesn't(?) happen when pasting at EoL of that line.

Christian