[TCLCORE] Text widget patches - call for review

[<fvo...@fr...>]

Hello all,

I have been proposing several patches to the text widget in the last days:

1. Mark next/prev with peer text widgets

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=312997&aid=3471873&group_id=12997
(this one fixes two bugs, which are items 3288113 and 3288121)

2. Moving the cursor in elided text freezes Tk

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3472539&group_id=12997&atid=312997

And I'm currently nursing further patches concerning other reported issues.

Referring to TIP #30, Vince Darley and Jeff Hobbs are identified as the text widget maintainers. Jeff being also the maintainer for a lot of other stuff I'm expecting him to be quite busy, so I have privately asked Vince to review the patches. He kindly replied that he had taken a very quick look at them, and that in his opinion they seem perfectly sensible/correct. However, he admitted he has no time for any active maintenance work. For this reason he advised me to ask for assistance of another maintainer on this list.

What I'm afraid of is that review and commit get delayed for quite a long time, which is a situation conveying serious drawbacks IMO:
  - the patches could not blend seamlessly in a later version of the code
  - I currently have all the background fresh in my mind, in case something needs to be changed
  - I (and for sure other people as well) would certainly get demotivated in providing patches if it turns out that the bottleneck is patch review or lack of maintainers

As a consequence I am now calling for your help in reviewing/committing these patches.

Thanks to all for your involvement.

With kind regards,
Francois