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Re: pdcurses readline-mingw backspace key in windows console
- From: Chet Ramey <chet dot ramey at case dot edu>
- To: Jon Ringle <JRingle at vertical dot com>
- Cc: andrew dot stubbs at st dot com, drow at false dot org, eliz at gnu dot org, denis dot pilat at st dot com, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com, bash-maintainers at gnu dot org, chet dot ramey at case dot edu
- Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:48:00 -0400
- Subject: Re: pdcurses readline-mingw backspace key in windows console
- References: <4DD3AF7ECBBC43409BA36508938D01852CF053@CVAEX1.VERTICAL.COM>
- Reply-to: chet dot ramey at case dot edu
Jon Ringle wrote:
Folks,
I ran into the same problem regarding the backspace key with
pdcurses/readline/mingw in a windows console that was discussed a
couple years ago here
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/gdb-patches/2006-02/msg00180.html.
This problem still exists today with pdcurses-3.3 and I believe that I
have found the problem and have submitted a patch to the pdcurses
project here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2021778&group_id=30480&atid=399168
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2021778&group_id=30480&atid=399168>
And if I read the pdcurses maintainer's reply correctly, the response is
"if you want terminfo, look somewhere else." Readline is not going to
become a curses-based application, so it appears that using pdcurses
with readline is a dead end.
Chet
--
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