The sphere, the holder, is everything *around* the partition;
it was confusing to call this holder type 'partition'.
Also correct and improve some comments.
There is no need to save, clear, and restore the mark when counting
words, lines and characters, because partitioning and unpartitioning
the buffer does not use the mark nor affect it.
Now M-D will report 0 lines instead of 1 line for an empty buffer, and
will match the output of 'wc --lines' as long the file is a POSIX file.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56054.
Bug existed since before version 2.1.10.
For this one quick switch back and forth there is no need to report
anything on the status bar nor to update colors and such. In this
case, those things are just a waste of time.
The extra things that close_buffer() did are only needed and useful
when manually closing a buffer, so move them there. The other three
calls of close_buffer() only need to get rid of the current buffer
(making the preceding buffer the new current one) and nothing else.
When a help-text buffer is closed while exiting from the help viewer,
the rest of the exit code takes care that the preceding buffer gets
displayed properly. And when a help-text buffer is closed because a
SIGWINCH occurred, doing anything for the preceding buffer is a waste
of time because a new help-text buffer will be opened and displayed
instantly.
This avoids the substantial overhead of first writing and then reading a
temporary file, and in the bargain removes two possible failure points.
This fulfills https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56371.
Closing a buffer automatically switches to the next buffer. But for
the help-text buffer this is not the desired behavior, so each closing
needs to be followed by a switch to the preceding buffer.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56411.
The previous commit makes that the terminal's state is only resaved
when standard input is actually reconnected to the terminal, and
leaves it unchanged otherwise. Apparently this is enough to fix
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56394.
When after reading a file we are not in curses mode, it means we have
read data from standard input, either from the keyboard or from a pipe.
In the latter case, we first need to reconnect standard input to the tty.
And in both cases, we then need to reenter curses mode before being able
to display the number of lines that were read (or an error message).
So, move the reconnecting code from scoop_stdin() to its own function,
and call this function from read_file() when needed.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56310.
Bug existed since version 2.1.8 when reading from stdin was introduced.
For some reason a SIGWINCH or SIGINT "corrupts" the current state of
the terminal, and magically validates the state that was saved first.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56394 properly.
Benno Schulenberg