On 2018 Dec 31 06:29:42, you wrote to me:   
      
    ac> I wrote the first patch for that back in 2014 but it was never   
    ac> accepted upstream.   
      
   yeah, i know/remember... they were the first to show up in my local   
   searches... i was actually looking for a simple golded compilation script that   
   i thought someone had posted but i wasn't able to find what i thought i   
   remembered... not even after spending a few hours digging back through   
   ozzmosis...   
      
    ac> Consequently the current version of GoldED still has that bug.   
      
   yep... funny thing is, once i remembered how to compile golded and got the   
   latest code, i was still seeing the "stack smashing" crash... it wasn't until   
   is suddenly dawned on me that i had rebooted the system and this new wide   
   screen monitor was now better recognized that i got my first clue about the   
   terminal width being the problem... so i went looking for the "[2560]" patch   
   to be sure where to put it... it didn't help and i still had the same   
   problem... so i took that patch back out and built again... then i tried   
   dropping my terminal width and loading golded... that's how i figured out the   
   255 width limit... heighth didn't seem to matter... the real thing that   
   initially threw me off was the error message changed to the "stack smashing"   
   one... that almost lead me down the wrong rabbit hole at first...   
      
    ac> I never tested >255 char wide screens with the editor, partly because   
    ac> my fix wasn't accepted upstream, so I forgot about submitting any more   
    ac> patches, but mainly because I never use terminals that large and I   
    ac> didn't expect anyone else to.   
      
   hehehe... yeah, i spend almost all of my time in one of over a dozen terminal   
   windows i have open at any one time... the majority of them are opened max   
   (fullscreen?)... on this new monitor, that's 271x70 with my current   
   configuration...   
      
    ac> See the next series of messages for my fixes to the bugs I know about.   
    ac> Be warned I haven't tested them extensively with very large terminals   
    ac> so you're likely to encounter more crashes.   
      
   i will look...   
      
   i am happy to say that something certainly has been corrected since my last   
   code update and build... i wasn't able to do any nodelist lookups but now that   
   seems to work... i think i have a little more work to do to get the nodelist   
   stuff working properly (ie: name lookups) but i'll get to that at some   
   point... if anyone has any pointers, they'd be appreciated... right now my   
   nodelist is being compiled into three goldnode.gx[aln] files...   
      
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