Re: PATCH: overwrite mode shouldn't replace newlines

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 29,  5:23pm, Ray Andrews wrote:
} Subject: Re: PATCH: overwrite mode shouldn't replace newlines
}
} On 11/29/2014 04:04 PM, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
} > In overwrite mode, either emacs style or vi-replace, on reaching the end
} > of the line new characters should be inserted rather than the newline be
} > replaced.
} >
} Sorry for  ranting, just ignore this, but how is it possible that a 
} mistake in something so basic could have survived until now?

Input editing of this sort isn't even the shell's "basic" job.  (E.g.
bash uses readline which is an entirely separate project tested and
maintained independently.)  There are plenty of "basic" things to
rant about, but this doesn't qualify.

} Are things so complicated that they can no longer be maintained?

Since this bug has probably existed since the beginning of time (in zsh
terms), it has little to do with complication that has crept in since.

Like most open-source projects dating from the late 80s, zsh relied on
users to test and report bugs.  There has never been enough volunteer
manpower for a dedicated all-code-paths testing regimen, so a bug that
a real user never encounters will only rarely be fixed.

That a patch showed up would argue against "no longer maintained."