MC internal viewer bug

Björn Eriksson bjorn at bjornen.nu
Mon Jun 3 08:34:21 UTC 2002


On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 12:04:10AM -0700, Arpad Biro wrote:
> > > I encountered a bug in MC 4.5.55's internal text file viewer. Try it
> > > with the attached test file: using an X terminal, take a look at this
> > > file in the internal viewer. Press F2 so that lines will be wrapped.
> > > Then start resizing the window in horizontal direction. You'll see
> > > that at certain horizontal sizes the text will not be wrapped.
> > > Hope you can reproduce it.
> > > (I'm using KDE 2.2.2 under Mandrake 8.1, running MC in Konsole.)
> > 
> > The bug is still present in the CVS version.  Feel free to report it to 
> > the mailing list.

 Confirmed. I seems to be the tab expansions fault. With tabs, it wraps
only on n*8 and n*8+1.

> # od -tx1 testfile
> 0000000 61 09 62 09 63 09 64 09 65 09 66 09 67 09 68 09

 Idle question: Is there a simple way of reversing hexdumps?

 [perl -ane 'print map(chr, map(hex, @F));']


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