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From:
Walter Alejandro Iglesias <wai@roquesor.com>
Subject:
Re: Improvement for vi(1) paste comand (updated diff) OFF-TOPIC
To:
tech@openbsd.org, Crystal Kolipe <kolipe.c@exoticsilicon.com>
Date:
Fri, 6 Feb 2026 13:38:00 +0100

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On Fri, Feb 06, 2026 at 10:26:57AM +0000, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2026 at 11:11:30AM +0100, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote:
> > Recently, I got the first useful feedback (in private) about this patch
> > of mine, so far ignored:
> 
> Just because people don't reply or comment, it doesn't mean that your patches
> are being _ignored_.
> 
> I read through almost all of the patches posted to -tech, looking for obvious
> typos or common C language mistakes, (even more so for patches that comes from
> less experienced coders), and unclear English in manual page updates, etc.
> 
> If I see nothing obviously wrong, and it's not an area of the codebase that I
> care much about, or which I am not particularly familiar with the history of,
> in other words my opinion of the patch is neutral, (neither positive or
> negative), then I don't bother posting a reply.  Or at least wait to see what
> other people's opinions are before commenting.
> 
> Very likely other people take a similar attitude.

Crystal, let me suggest you a better use of your time.  Take a look to
this bug, please:

  https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=176956435717456&w=2

I've been trying to find the original cause of that problem for three
days, I'm still at lost.  For an "expert" like you, it'll be a piece of
cake.


-- 
Walter