From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21549 invoked by alias); 8 Feb 2006 17:30:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 21541 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Feb 2006 17:30:54 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lon-del-02.spheriq.net (HELO lon-del-02.spheriq.net) (195.46.50.98) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 08 Feb 2006 17:30:51 +0000 Received: from lon-out-02.spheriq.net ([195.46.50.130]) by lon-del-02.spheriq.net with ESMTP id k18HUfTG013262 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 17:30:41 GMT Received: from lon-cus-02.spheriq.net (lon-cus-02.spheriq.net [195.46.50.38]) by lon-out-02.spheriq.net with ESMTP id k18HUeWM018124 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 17:30:40 GMT Received: from beta.dmz-eu.st.com (beta.dmz-eu.st.com [164.129.1.35]) by lon-cus-02.spheriq.net with ESMTP id k18HUco4030229 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 17:30:39 GMT Received: from zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (ns2.st.com [164.129.230.9]) by beta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 2FED5DA46; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 17:30:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.bri.st.com (mail1.bri.st.com [164.129.8.218]) by zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 73E95474AB; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 17:34:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [164.129.15.13] (terrorhawk.bri.st.com [164.129.15.13]) by mail1.bri.st.com (MOS 3.5.8-GR) with ESMTP id CHF05259 (AUTH stubbsa); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 17:30:37 GMT Message-ID: <43EA2A39.4000107@st.com> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 17:30:00 -0000 From: Andrew STUBBS User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Denis PILAT , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, bash-maintainers@gnu.org Subject: Re: [readline-mingw] backspace key and TUI size 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> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-O-Spoofed: Not Scanned X-O-General-Status: No X-O-Spam1-Status: Not Scanned X-O-Spam2-Status: Not Scanned X-O-URL-Status: Not Scanned X-O-Virus1-Status: No X-O-Virus2-Status: Not Scanned X-O-Virus3-Status: No X-O-Virus4-Status: No X-O-Virus5-Status: Not Scanned X-O-Image-Status: Not Scanned X-O-Attach-Status: Not Scanned X-SpheriQ-Ver: 4.2.01 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/msg00180.txt.bz2 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:51:14 -0500 >> From: Daniel Jacobowitz >> Cc: Denis PILAT , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, bash-maintainers@gnu.org >> >> I'd like to understand what goes wrong for you and why outputing >> whatever pdcurses is giving you for backspace doesn't work. > > Seconded. Please explain why Backspace doesn't work (if you don't > know, please debug this on your system and see what you come up with). > Thanks. It does work in MSYS terminals. In DOS/Windows or Cygwin terminals it moves the cursor right, instead of left, and leaves the deleted character on the screen. I assume that this curses just doesn't support those terminals in this respect. I don't really understand why. I hope it will go away in future versions. I don't suppose anybody knows of a better/alternative curses implementation that doesn't require cygwin? PDcurses does work for the TUI, which is nice. Except in Cygwin xterm, but you can't have everything. I thought this patch was going to remain internal, at least until the MinGW.org GDB patches have been properly contributed. Andrew