From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27283 invoked by alias); 9 Feb 2006 13:49:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 27274 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Feb 2006 13:49:47 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:49:46 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1F7CB4-00063w-VI; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:49:43 -0500 Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:49:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Denis PILAT Cc: Andrew STUBBS , Eli Zaretskii , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, bash-maintainers@gnu.org Subject: Re: [readline-mingw] backspace key and TUI size Message-ID: <20060209134942.GA23253@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Denis PILAT , Andrew STUBBS , Eli Zaretskii , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, bash-maintainers@gnu.org References: <43E9A5B1.1030001@st.com> <20060208134335.GA22980@nevyn.them.org> <43EA1655.609@st.com> <20060208161452.GA26965@nevyn.them.org> <43EA201B.5080305@st.com> <20060208165114.GA28698@nevyn.them.org> <43EA2A39.4000107@st.com> <20060208173951.GA31572@nevyn.them.org> <43EB0CF9.1080406@st.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43EB0CF9.1080406@st.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-02/txt/msg00209.txt.bz2 On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:35:53AM +0100, Denis PILAT wrote: > > > > > >If the mingw build of pdcurses works in an MSYS terminal and explodes > >in a DOS console, then the MSYS terminal must implement something > >different than the DOS console; if the curses library is not aware > >of the difference, things will break. Please don't adjust readline > >for this; instead get pdcurses not to report the capability or to > >report it correctly. > > > > > > > You're right Daniel, patching readline for that is not the best thing to > do. I'm going to have a look at pdcurses sources instead. > Thanks anyway for your comments. > Regarding the TUI size, the approach seems to be fine, can I send you a > new patch whith a ChangeLog for that ? Yes, please. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery