[readline-mingw] backspace key and TUI size

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:14:52 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, bash-maintainers@gnu.org
> 
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:03:33PM +0100, Denis PILAT wrote:
> > Our host is i686-pc-mingw32, gdb is compiled under cygwin with 
> > "-mno-cygwin" flag to avoid cygwin dependencies.
> > We also use pdcurses library since ncurse is not available on windows.
> > I think that's why you don't see the problem. With this patch, I'm not 
> > using the tputs() function anymore on Windows, as it was not used for MSDOS.
> 
> Ah - we (CodeSourcery) don't use a curses library at all; just the
> standard Windows and MinGW DLLs.  See win32-termcap.c.

But win32-termcap.c is not a general solution for readline, it's
private to GDB, right?  SHouldn't this problem be solved in readline
rather than in GDB (and in every other application that uses
readline)?