Re: FVWM: ColormapFocus bug?

From: Albrecht Kadlec <albrecht_at_auto.tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 96 18:59:50 +0200

>>>>> J de Jongh writes:

J> I'm running fvwm-2.0.42 on NetBSD-1.1 (i386) and XFree86-3.1.2.
J> While hacking my ~/.fvwm2rc, I discovered that fvwm2 is pretty picky
J> about how the ColormapFocus is to be set. It turned out that
J> either exactly ONE space or exactly ONE tab must be used between
J> ColormapFocus and FollowsFocus or FollowsMouse. Otherwise, the code
J> in fvwm/builtins.c (procedure SetColormapFocus) doesn't find
J> either keyword. I'll dive into the code once I know this really
J> is a bug, and hasn't been fixed in the meantime.

it's the parsing code just skipping one character (any !!!)
and not using GetNextToken. (thus only one space is killed)

albrecht

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