terminfo entry for cygwin missing "el" entry

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Mon Jul 14 11:50:00 GMT 2003


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I was just rebuilding less for cygwin 1.5.0 (turns out that I have a 6G
> strace file that less doesn't care for) and, in the process of
> rebuilding less, inadvertently built less with ncurses (I normally build
> it with termcap to avoid the ncurses dependency).  I probably wouldn't
> even have noticed that less defaulted to this if not for the fact that
> it started reporting that the terminal wasn't fully functional.
> 
> Setting 'el=\E[K' to the terminfo file seems to make less work, and it
> seems to be the right thing to do for terminfo/ncurses.
> 
> If this makes sense, could it be included in the next ncurses release?
> 
> (I will revert less to just use termcap, but I wanted to report this
> problem anyway)

Will do -- ncurses is near the top of my queue for 1.5.0...

--Chuck


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