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

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 04:45:15PM +0000, Andrew STUBBS wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >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?
> 
> No, we don't use those functions. The win32-termcap doesn't support the 
> TUI. PDcurses does (mostly), but the symbols clash, so win32-termcap is 
> disabled.

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.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery