[readline-mingw] backspace key and TUI size

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Wed Feb 8 17:54:00 GMT 2006


> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 12:13:23 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: Andrew STUBBS <andrew.stubbs@st.com>, Denis PILAT <denis.pilat@st.com>, 	gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, bash-maintainers@gnu.org, 	chet@case.edu
> 
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:03:32PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > 
> > > Please, guys, if you're going to submit patches that only matter with
> > > other configuration changes and patches, say so!
> > > 
> > > I'd like to understand what goes wrong for you and why outputing
> > > whatever pdcurses is giving you for backspace doesn't work.
> > 
> > Can we all agree that the screensize code is valuable, at least?
> 
> Absolutely!  Eli pointed out that it needs some error checking; this
> is somewhat important, because stdin might not be connected to a
> console (e.g. a pipe).  But other than that it looked right to me.

Yes, apart of the bit with error checking, the MinGW screen-size code
is okay with me.



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