Re: Problems with "the Hessling editor" (THE)

[Troy Dawson]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 2:26 PM Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:

>  On Mon, 2023-12-11 at 19:27 +0000, George R Goffe wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > For some time now I have seen a problem with "the".
>  >
>  > It seems to happen with earlier versions of "the" and ncurses.
>  >
>  > The test setup:
>  >
>  > make 2 tabs in a konsole widget. This problem DOES NOT APPEAR in
>  > xterms.
>  > enter the <any file name> in a konsole tab.
>  > switch to another tab or anywhere else
>  > switch back
>  > the has exited (after entering NO commands). the exits unless the
>  > file under edit has been
>  >      changed. In this case, the last line in the file is the
>  > "current" line.
>  >
>  >
>  > this problem seems to be exhibited regardless of "the" version and/or
>  > "ncurses" version.
>  >
>  > The problem appears as if the quit command and others has been
>  > entered. No such command has been entered though.
>  >
>  > Have you seen anything like this? Could it be a konsole config issue?
>
>  Never heard of something called THE and it doesn't seem to be in the
>  standard repos (I looked for 'the', 'THE' and 'hessing' with no
>  results). What is this?
>
>  poc
>  
It's a crazy old editor[1]
"Based on the IBM mainframe editor XEDIT, and includes many features of
Kedit."
It's code hasn't been touched in 10 years [2]

[1] - https://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net/
[2] - https://sourceforge.net/p/hessling-editor/code/HEAD/tree/