Re: PATCH? - Re: Bug? in complist when filenames are longer than the screen

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 4, 11:48am, DervishD wrote:
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}     The first patch (the "defensive" patch) does not help here, it
} has no effect at least in the way I'm reproducing the problem

Not unexpected; it was sort of a shot in the dark.

}     BUT the second patch certainly prevents the infinite loop.

I'll commit that one, then, with some notation that it's a stopgap and
probably needs further repairs.

} Unfortunately it doesn't avoid the crash nor the screen messup.

It might have helped if you'd reminded us in the first place that you
are not using compsys.  More on this elsewhere.