Re: Do we really care how many floppies are in the base?

[Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com>]

I said:

>[...] 
> I've retrieved slightly more current sources for that tiny editor,
> ae.  I'll try to get a debian package put together for it tonight,
> so you can take a look.

Well, I retrieved the latest sources from ftp.mks.com:/pub/ant/,
modified it to build under debian and to use /etc/ae.rc as a
default config file.  That was easy.  However, I see that it's
got a curses display bug under both debian and SunOS.

I worked with it a while without curing the bug, and dropped
it due to lack of time.  I've reported the bug to the author,
but wouldn't expect a fix before we must make a decision about
what to put in the release.  Too bad -- these current sources
build to an executable of under 25 kbytesB.  Pretty tiny for
a full-screen editor.

If anyone else would like to take a whack at it, the bug is
triggered as follows:

1.  ae mode.rc
2.  ESC [ESC ...]

The bug appears to be in the code surrounding the two calls
to the dispchar() function in display.c.  It's triggered by a
text line which exactly fits on the screen, and involves
mishandling the '\n' at the end of that line.