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From: Karl Dahlke <eklhad@comcast.net>
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Subject: [edbrowse-dev] spurious empty buffers from textareas
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 07:18:46 -0500
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These have annoyed me for quite a while, and come to find they annoy others as well.
As per our chat discussions, I made a change, but it's a UI change so should be described here.
(Not everyone is on chat.)

A fill out form with a textarea use to allocate a buffer for that area at browse time, looking like <buffer 7>
It now waits to see if you're actually going to use it, since 90% of the time you don't.
It begins life as <buffer ?>

An itext (for input text) command  allocates a buffer and changes it to <buffer 7>
Then you can write text in buffer 7 and submit the form like before.
It's one more step for something that is rarely done,
but it prevents a ton of empty buffers from accumulating.

I have no strong feelings about the actual command name.

itext (input text)
ibuf (input buffer)
iw (input write)
ita (input textarea)

Long as it starts with i I'm ok.

If you change line 760 in decorate.c the old behavior returns.

I'm not documenting any of this until a majority thinks it's a good idea.
My vote is yes but others may disagree.

Karl Dahlke