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RE: pdcurses readline-mingw backspace key in windows console
- From: "Jon Ringle" <JRingle at vertical dot com>
- To: <chet dot ramey at case dot edu>
- 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>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:08:46 -0400
- Subject: RE: pdcurses readline-mingw backspace key in windows console
Chet Ramey wrote:
> 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.
What would you recommend then for a mingw readline-based application
that is run from a Windows console?
I suppose I could just provide my own terminfo stubs and link with that
to satisfy readline... The only reason that I was trying to link in a
curses library was to satisfy readline terminfo dependencies.
Jon