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Re: pdcurses readline-mingw backspace key in windows console
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Jon Ringle <JRingle at vertical dot com>
- Cc: chet dot ramey at case dot edu, andrew dot stubbs at st dot com, 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 17:10:38 -0400
- Subject: Re: pdcurses readline-mingw backspace key in windows console
- References: <48820CB0.9000502@case.edu> <4DD3AF7ECBBC43409BA36508938D01852CF05A@CVAEX1.VERTICAL.COM>
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 04:08:46PM -0400, Jon Ringle wrote:
> 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.
GDB and its included readline should already build on mingw32 without
a curses library. Make sure you're using a current version.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery