Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies
From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: 1-Line Files?
Message-ID: <110700011@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 9 Jan 90 01:39:09 GMT
Lines: 24
Nf-ID: #N:p.cs.uiuc.edu:110700011:000:1022
Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Jan  7 21:50:00 1990


We are using gnuemacs, v18.52.8.

In general, I find that gnuemacs has bugs with 1-line files.  I often
upload postscript files, which have ^M's in them but no newlines.
Sometimes I must edit these files to fix problems (kermit is buggy).

Usually this involves searching for ^M^J, deleting the ^J, and then
saving the file.  Sometimes I try deleting an entire page (search,
set-mark, incremental-search, ^W).

Anyway, with 100k < files < 300K, gnuemacs often munges my file.  I.e.
it deletes 30K of data that it shouldn't.  I can't quantify exactly
where the problem is occuring (this bug affected me 9mo ago, before we
had this newsgroup) , but it happens fairly regularly, with very few
editor actions.

Has gnuemacs been extensively tested with these types of files?  Have
there been any recent bug-fixes or bug-discoveries along these lines?


Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu   UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies