On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 03:16:29AM +0200, Richard P. Groenewegen wrote:
> The following solution is kind of a hack, but you might like it. If
> have tested the code a little, but be careful with it. It is probably
> not that robust yet.
And it sure wasn't. When I tested it I had some debug output and a
sleep so I could read what was going on. When I took out the debug
code and the sleep it did not work anymore. But I still don't know
why. Here is a simplified example to show what's going on. Let's
say I have a script testset with the following perl-code:
$arg = shift;
open MAIL, "$arg";
$message = "";
while (<MAIL>) {
$message .= $_;
}
close MAIL;
open MAIL, ">$arg";
print MAIL "$message ...Last line...\n";
system("sleep", "1");
close MAIL;
And I have my editor variable set to this script. Now, if I edit a
message with e, a line " ...Last line..." will be added at the bottom
and I enter the save menu after 1 second of sleep.
Now when I delete the sleep-line in the script above, and I edit a
message, the message is unchanged! No " ...Last line..." added or
anything. This might be a perl-question and in stead of the sleep
there might me a flush statement that also works, but still: if
someone can explain this to me I would be very happy.
regards,
Richard
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