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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xedit is brain-damaged
Message-ID: <9002012117.AA26263@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 90 21:17:34 GMT
References: <1990Feb1.052556.10747@arp.anu.oz.au>
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Brain damaged?  Perhaps a bit buggy, but brain damaged? :-)

>  Xedit then did the following thing: it would
> find the first occurrence of ~, then it would convert it to \~,
> then it would position the insert cursor in front of \~, would find
> ~ again (the same one!), would put a second \ in front of ~, and
> so ad infinitum.

In any case, you have found a real bug in the Text widget, here is an
"unofficial" patch to ``lib/Xaw/TextPop.c'' that will solve your problem.


						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium 

Net:	 kit@expo.lcs.mit.edu
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-----  cut here  -----------

*** /tmp/,RCSt1002877       Thu Feb  1 16:19:51 1990
--- lib/Xaw/TextPop.c Thu Feb  1 15:38:27 1990
***************
*** 949,954
        return(FALSE);
      }

      if (once_only)
        if (show_current)
      break;

--- 949,959 -----
        return(FALSE);
      }

+     if (dir == XawsdRight)
+       XawTextSetInsertionPoint( tw, pos + replace.length);
+     else
+       XawTextSetInsertionPoint( tw, pos);
+
      if (once_only)
        if (show_current)
      break;
***************
*** 958,968
        }
      count++;
    }
-
-   if (dir == XawsdRight)
-     XawTextSetInsertionPoint( tw, pos + replace.length);
-   else
-     XawTextSetInsertionPoint( tw, pos);

    if (replace.length == 0)
      XawTextUnsetSelection(tw);

--- 963,968 -----
        }
      count++;
    }

    if (replace.length == 0)
      XawTextUnsetSelection(tw);