On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 17:11:23 +0100 Nick Warne <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Jochen, > > On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 17:47:04 +0200 > Jochen Sprickerhof <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Nick, > > > > * Nick Warne <[email protected]> [2016-09-24 12:50]: > > > To reproduce, use st with just the scrollback patch applied. > > > > > > Start dwm, and then use nano to load a large(ish) file (like > > > dwm.c), and use the PgDn key to scroll down - after about 10 > > > seconds, X locks up - keyboard/mouse don't do anything. > > > > I've tested it over here but wasn't able to reproduce it (had to > > copy dwm.c a couple of times to get 10sec of scroll down). I used st > > f739843 (with scrollback), nano 2.7.0 and xorg 1.18.4 from Debian > > unstable. What did you use? Can you send a backtrace? > > I didn't mean a 10 second scroll back - I just meant using PgDn a few > times then maybe up, then down, after 10 ~ 20 secs X crashes... not > the length of scroll. > > OK, my X is pretty old (maybe the problem): > > X.Org X Server 1.14.3 (Slackware 14.1) > > nano is 2.6.3 > > I will update nano first, I didn't realise there was a new release. First report :D OK, this is getting messy. nano version 2.7.0, but I just found that dwm stomps on the nano keyboard sequence Shift+Alt+$ to soft wrap long lines - dwm pushes me to TAG 4. From nano help (Ctrl g): M-$ Soft wrapping of overlong lines enable/disable I need to do more reading - or maybe hack nano to use a different key sequence. Nick -- "Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's the trouble with time travel, you never can tell." -- Doctor Who "Androids of Tara"
