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Re: Too long lines in the echo area of the stand-alone Info reader
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Gavin Smith |
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Re: Too long lines in the echo area of the stand-alone Info reader |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Dec 2014 18:07:35 +0000 |
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> Looking through the code in display_update_window_1, I don't see any
> attempt to handle this situation. Does the code assume that writing a
> character at the last column of the last display line doesn't cause
> such a scroll? If so, is that a portable assumption, even if only
> Posix TTYs are considered? ISTR that in the Less program there is a
> more elaborate handling of at least 3 different behaviors in this
> situation, perhaps Info should do something similar as well?
It's probably best not to print in that display location. I think
there may have used to be code to check for this, but I must have
removed it at some point along with other changes. I'll try to have a
look at this in the next few days.