[9fans] i say, this is interesting

[Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com>]

I use rob's ``plumb to web'' rule posted
a while back.  Today I plumbed and got
a really neat result: all of my terminals
started ignoring every other character
input.

I would have found this to be a great
nuisance if it hadn't eventually gone away.
I played with it a bit, and I think I
know the causes for both the start and
stop of the feature.

A while back I upgraded from Opera 6.12
to 7.11.  I guess it's better, though I
don't really perceive any additional
functionality and it's doggedly slower.
In any event, apparently -newpage no
longer works properly because instead
of opening a new tab, it kicks off a new
opera.

The aforementioned terminal feature
persists until a second or so after
I close the newly opened opera window,
indicating the problem might be due
to the blocked ssh connection.  I do
believe that under 6.12 ``opera -newpage''
returned immediately, having delivered
the open page command to the running
instance.

Now, is this funny a bug in source or
could it be in my setup?  I have the most
amazing ability to step on things
inadvertantly causing updates to not
get applied, so the latter wouldn't
suprise me.

Cheers,

Sam