Re: [dev] [sbase] [ed] A couple of notes

From: Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo_AT_codemadness.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 23:55:43 +0100

On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 03:02:04PM -0700, Michael Forney wrote:
> On 2020-03-17, Cág <ca6c_AT_firemail.cc> wrote:
> > There are a couple things I've come across the
> > sbase's version of ed:
> > 1. w doesn't print the byte count. Suppose a sample
> > ed session (using P to distinguish my input from ed's
> > output):
> > % ed
> > P
> > *a
> > milk
> > bread
> > eggs
> > meat
> > veggies
> > bananas
> > apples
> > .
> > *w list
> > *q
> > %
> > 2. I guess using ed for huge files is not really a good
> > idea, however the sbase ed cannot open a 750MiB 3.5m lines
> > CSV file, while the GNU version can. Probably has to do
> > with the limits set.
> >
> > As always, I'm very pleased working with sbase and want to
> > thank everybody responsible for making it.
>
> Hi Cág,
>
> Thanks for the bug reports. As Hiltjo said, it would be very helpful
> if you could supply a patch for these issues. I think at least the
> first one should be pretty easy to fix.
>
> If not, feel free to use the tracker I mentioned in my other reply to
> make sure these issues are not forgotten.
>

Hi,

What kind of tracker? I think discussions of suckless projects should stay on
the mailinglist and/or IRC, not an external bugtracker or something.

Have you tried sending the issues to the maintainer or gently bumping it?

Thanks,

-- 
Kind regards,
Hiltjo
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