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From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston)
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Subject: RE: Bug Report -- Feature Request
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Date: 16 Jan 90 02:58:37 GMT
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>BUG NOTICE:  Situation:  You do a "SEARCH blahblah" and the word
>"blahblah" is highlighted.  If a TAB occurs before that word, the
>wrong part of the screen is highlighted.
     
NEWS knows the character offset of the start of the target text, but this may
not necessarily be the SMG displayed column because of the tabs.
     
I must admit that I knew of this problem, but made the decision that it was
less (and faster) code to assume that offset = display column in all cases.
     
Is there code which can get the correct display column without large additional
code blocks anyone?
     
>FEATURE REQUEST: CC now has /PARALLEL option that takes advantage of
>VAX systems that support PPL$ routines.  Could there be an option in
>BUILDNEWS.COM to use this option?  Actually, it can be the default
>for VMS 5.x systems because single-processor systems handle the
>routines just fine.
     
At this point I will leave it as advice in this newsgroup.
     
Geoff Huston