From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: RE: [9fans] acme
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:12:44 -0400
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>> 1. acme -c1 /rc/bin/termrc /rc/bin/cpurc
>> 2. Highlight the second line of termrc (# terminal startup)
>> 3. Highlight the second line of cpurc (# cpu server start up)
>> 4. 2-click Snarf in the termrc tag line
>> 5. mouse-1-3 to paste into the termrc tag line
>>
>> You will see that Snarf in the termrc window grabbed the
>> highlighted text from the cpurc window.
>>
>> acme(1) is ambiguous -- it simply says:
>>           Snarf
>>                Place selected text in snarf buffer.
>>
>> But which selected text?  We seem to be assuming it means the selected
>> text in the window where you clicked Snarf.  Otherwise why have a
>> Snarf in every window's tag?  But in fact it seems to be the text
>> which was most recently selected, regardless of which window or tag
>> line it is in.
>
> Aha.  This bug was introduced in December 2005
> trying to fix a different bug.  I never copied the bug
> fix into the p9p acme so that's why I couldn't
> reproduce it in casual testing.
>
> Will have to think harder about this; thanks for
> the test case.

Fixed now on sources.  Should be a new binary later.

Russ