New terminal capability in fhandler_console.cc

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Sat Mar 31 09:45:00 GMT 2001


On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 11:31:18AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 07:36:58PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 01:52:52AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >> I don't think it works that way, does it?  I just tried this.  There
>> >> is no wrapping.  Characters at the end of the line are truncated.
>> >
>> >Did you try that under linux? Hmm, I'm perhaps misleaded by the
>> >behaviour of the shell.
>> 
>> Yes.  I still have a little bit of state left on this from when I wrote
>> an editor years ago.  I was also involved in the project which eventually
>> became ncurses many years ago.
>> 
>> Anyway, I was pretty sure that there was no wrapping involved.  I have a
>> test file, if you're interested.
>
>Thank you but it's not needed anymore. I've just added insert mode and
>the `im' and `ei' capability to fhandler_console. You're right, the
>wrapping is managed by the shell itself. Fine. That was pretty easy!

How about insert character (\E[%p1%d@) and delete character (\E[%p1%dP)?

They should be trivial now as well, shouldn't they?

cgf



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