[readline-mingw] backspace key and TUI size
Andrew STUBBS
andrew.stubbs@st.com
Wed Feb 8 17:30:00 GMT 2006
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:51:14 -0500
>> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>> Cc: Denis PILAT <denis.pilat@st.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, bash-maintainers@gnu.org
>>
>> I'd like to understand what goes wrong for you and why outputing
>> whatever pdcurses is giving you for backspace doesn't work.
>
> Seconded. Please explain why Backspace doesn't work (if you don't
> know, please debug this on your system and see what you come up with).
> Thanks.
It does work in MSYS terminals. In DOS/Windows or Cygwin terminals it
moves the cursor right, instead of left, and leaves the deleted
character on the screen. I assume that this curses just doesn't support
those terminals in this respect.
I don't really understand why. I hope it will go away in future
versions. I don't suppose anybody knows of a better/alternative curses
implementation that doesn't require cygwin?
PDcurses does work for the TUI, which is nice. Except in Cygwin xterm,
but you can't have everything.
I thought this patch was going to remain internal, at least until the
MinGW.org GDB patches have been properly contributed.
Andrew
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