Re: vpa - hpa

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:21:36PM +0200, Philippe Blain wrote:
> >From Philippe Blain, Bordeaux, France.
> My computer: P133 - 8,4 Go - 32 Mo Red Hat Linux 7.0
> 
> Subject: Corrections for ncurses-5.3-20030823+
> 
> 1-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> File : ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c
> 
> Using vpa/hpa in the function relative_move(), is a nonsense:
> 
> Column_address (hpa) or row_address (vpa) must be OUTSIDE relative_move()
> and considered as a case in itself (tactic#6).
> 
> The reason why is that they give VERY OFTEN (but not always) the best cost
> comparing with parm_down/parm_up , cursor_right/cursor_left, ... hiding them
> and then the tactics #2,#3,#4,#5 become nothing else than

but it appears that tactic #1 already covers this case...

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