Invasive fix committed - please review and test

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 12:37 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> >
> > As indicated in my last email, the Qt version of Subsurface got the
> > multi edit semantics wrong. I just pushed two commits that I THINK fix
> > this, but I am understandably rather nervous about this.
> 
> Looks ok to me. In various places we've considered the NULL pointer
> and an empty text field to be the same, and your EDIT_TEXT doesn't do
> that, but that seems like a small thing.
> 
> I do think that a helper function for that string comparison would be
> a good idea. Just something like
> 
>    bool same_string(const char *a, const char *b)
>    {
>       return !strcmp(a ? : "", b ? : "");
>    }
> 
> would do it.

I like that.

I also realized that I missed a big chunk of the commit that dealt with
non-text edits.

And then found a bug in that one. So that is being rewritten, too.

So 4.1 is not happening today. And likely not tomorrow, either :-(

/D