From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>, zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: overwrite mode shouldn't replace newlines
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:55:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <547B7649.4020509@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <141130112401.ZM28710@torch.brasslantern.com>
On 11/30/2014 11:24 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Like most open-source projects dating from the late 80s, zsh relied on
> users to test and report bugs. There has never been enough volunteer
> manpower for a dedicated all-code-paths testing regimen, so a bug that
> a real user never encounters will only rarely be fixed.
That is demonstrably the case. But as a guy who's done some testing in
a project
I can't help but notice that trying overstrike mode would be one of the
first
things I'd have done. It's another cultural adjustment for me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-30 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-30 0:04 Oliver Kiddle
2014-11-30 1:23 ` Ray Andrews
2014-11-30 19:24 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-30 19:55 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2014-11-30 21:42 ` Jan Larres
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