Re: demos : enhanced text mode remains gets stuck on

[<tim...@en...>]

Thanks for your detailed explanations ! I don't know why, but I must
have forgotten ignore_enhanced_text somewhen after pasting the code from
another terminal... It is working now, and my next patch will include
the fix.

Best regards,

Timoth=E9e


Ethan Merritt wrote:

>On Friday 13 January 2006 06:09 am, Timoth=E9e Lecomte wrote:
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>>Ethan reported that the enhanced text mode remains on when you run
>>"load 'all.dem' ".
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>>As it seems to be considered as a problem, I propose to add "set
>>termoption noenhanced" at the end of the demo file
>>'enhancedtext.dem'.
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>No, sorry.  I have explained the problem badly.
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>The point is that even if the terminal is in enhanced text mode,
>there are times when the enhanced text processing is not wanted.
>For instance, it is almost always a bad idea to treat underscores in
>file names as indicating a subscript.  For this reason there is a=20
>core routine ignore_enhanced(TRUE) that temporarily turns off
>enhanced text processing.  ignore_enhanced(FALSE) turns is back
>on again.  The routine is implemented by providing a flag variable
>available to the terminal drivers:
>    TBOOLEAN ignore_enhanced_text;
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>As best as I can make out, the wxWidgets terminal is not checking
>this flag.  Therefore if the terminal is in enhanced text mode, some
>strings are treated this way when they should not be.
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>Example:
>	set termoption enhanced
>	load 'histograms.dem'
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>In the key there are entries for "Soviet_Union" and "United_Kingdom".
>Note the underscores.  It is not intended that these be typeset as
>subscripts.  The x11, post, and other terminals correctly render these
>text strings to contain the underscore.  The wx terminal shows instead
>a subscripted next character.=20
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