Re: [readline-mingw] backspace key and TUI size

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.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.  Are those
functions not being used for you?

I just don't think the patch could be right.  If you're using the same
termcap layer that my builds are using, it should have no effect; but
if you're using a termcap library that gives you a real backspace
capability string, and outputing that does the wrong thing, then either
your pdcurses library or your termcap entry for the Windows console
sounds pretty broken to me.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery