There is a number of fixes present in the upstream CVS repository for joe: - Check for math functions - Use *joerc if *fancyjoerc not there. - fix segfault from -orphan [Gentoo bug #283508] - fix window size detection bug: can't take out types.h from tty.c - update status line immediately on resize. - va_copy fix. - don't smartbackspace when smartbacks is off. I believe that it might make sense for Gentoo to include all these fixes in a ~ARCH ebuild. If upstream does make a release soon, they'll be included and some advance testing seems prudent. If upstream doesn't release soon, we might even want to stabilize these fixes one day, independent from upstream, so they should enter testing. In either case, having them in ~ARCH would be the way to go. I assume you might wish to stabilize the current 3.7 first, as bug #259482 requests, maybe including the fix for bug #283508 as well.
Created attachment 208740 [details, diff] Fixes since 3.7 release This patch contains the fixes from the joe-current/main directory in the upstream CVS. To me this directory seems to be some kind of stable branch, and these fixes in particular seem pretty obvious and safe to me.
I have already prepared a snapshot from cvs that I am using locally, I will commit it to the tree if maintainer doesn't reply in a week Thanks
This will need more work since cvs snapshot has Find feature broken (when I press Ctrl+V, Ctrl+F and try to search anything, it fails :-S)
I prefer to stick to fixed releases rather than CVS snapshots and as pacho says the snapshot doesn't work 100%.
