Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 21:30:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Wu-Tang Forever <nellie@home.com> To: "Andrew E. Stevens" <andrew@log.on.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pico bug? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808102129570.22777-100000@cc219337-a.lwmrn1.pa.home.com> In-Reply-To: <35CF8C76.9125CB64@log.on.ca>
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I had the same problem, it is a pine package bug... go cvsup /usr/ports and make clean pine4 and remake it :) On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Andrew E. Stevens wrote: > Greetings: > > I have been using FreeBSD 2.1.7 for nearly a year and a half, without > any problems related to pico or text editors in general. However, I > recently did a full reinstall of freebsd over FTP, and am now running > 2.2.7. Ever since the upgrade, pico has been behaving rather oddly; > inserting uppercase U's in the top line of the file I am editing (see > example below). > > Has anyone heard of this happening? The number of U's vary from 3 or > 4, right up to 50 or so. It seems the more I edit, the more U's are > written to the top of the file. The U's are not visible immediately > after I save; I have to exit, and re-view (using cat, pico, or another > text editor.). The U's can be removed by editing them out, and don't > seem to re-appear until some other part of the file is edited. > > I checked the bug reports but didn't see anything listed on this > matter. Is there something wrong with my configuration, or should I be > filling out a bug report? Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. > > Regards, > > > Andrew Stevens. > > Example (after I write, exit pico, and cat the file) using the first two > lines of my afterstep configuration file. > > - Note that the original line is still intact, just with a ton of U's in > front of it. > > UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU > UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU > UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU# > 03/08/97 sample.steprc v2.0 fsf ffejes@midway.uchicago.edu > ############################################ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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