I am finding that when I run ved in a linux console - i.e., plain
black and white screen, no windows - I get extra, spurious, spaces
echoed to the screen when I insert characters into a line.
That is, go to the beginning of a line, type a character, say 'a'.
Do ctrl-a to get back to the beginning of the line and type another
character, say 'b'. The line ought now to contain "ba", but instead it
contains "b a". The space isn't really there in the ved buffer, because
it goes away if I do vedrefresh and it doesn't show up if I write the
file and cat it.
I get the same effect if instead of typing the 'b' directly, I go to the
command line and do :vedcharinsert(`b`), so it's something to do with
vedcharinsert.
This is happening both with the unchanged pop11 binary that I downloaded
with poplog15.53 and with one I have recompiled to run under libc5, and
under both RedHat 6.0 and two mini linuxes. I haven't knowingly changed
any ved source files or library files. It is only happening in the
linux console, not when I run ved inside an xterm window, or in xved.
Is it a familiar symptom to anyone else? Is there a known cure?
Thanks,
Steve
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