Re: stronged 470a13 dump mode oddity

[John Ballance <jwb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Many thanks..

John

On 27/02/2020 20:48, Fred Graute wrote:

> In message <74ad9440-993b-841d-ebb8-10a19afdadce@xxxxxxxxxx>
>           John Ballance <jwb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I use dump mode for binary editing of 'stuff'.  I recently came across a
> > very repeatable issue. Following a binary edit near the file end (its 
> > large), I found it had removed an &20 (ascii space) next to an &0A (LF). 
> >       
> The way end-of-line spaces are trimmed has been changed in 4.70 but it
> seems to have some unwanted side-effects. To get round the problem make
> sure that the option to trim eol spaces is off.
>
>   Mode choices > Edit > Trim trailing spaces of lines before saving
>
> > this was at a hex offset of about &bf25 .. Its utterly repeatable with
> > this file. repeated removals take place later in the file. . i.e. it 
> > appears to be doing some processing either during edit, or during save, 
> > in a file that shouldn't have any unexpected edits.
> >       
> I'll change the code to trim eol spaces so it excludes Dump mode.
>
> Cheers,
> Fred.
>
>

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