From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9519 invoked by alias); 9 Feb 2006 09:36:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 9508 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Feb 2006 09:36:28 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fra-del-02.spheriq.net (HELO fra-del-02.spheriq.net) (195.46.51.98) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:36:26 +0000 Received: from fra-out-01.spheriq.net (fra-out-01.spheriq.net [195.46.51.129]) by fra-del-02.spheriq.net with ESMTP id k199aGA1010905 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 09:36:17 GMT Received: from fra-cus-01.spheriq.net (fra-cus-01.spheriq.net [195.46.51.37]) by fra-out-01.spheriq.net with ESMTP id k199aBXJ012997 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 09:36:15 GMT Received: from beta.dmz-eu.st.com (beta.dmz-eu.st.com [164.129.1.35]) by fra-cus-01.spheriq.net with ESMTP id k199a8QF002678 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 09:36:10 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 E24DEDA61; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 09:36:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.cro.st.com (mail1.cro.st.com [164.129.40.131]) by zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 8353D4726C; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 09:39:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from st.com (crx1177.cro.st.com [164.129.47.77]) by mail1.cro.st.com (MOS 3.5.8-GR) with ESMTP id CGQ59790 (AUTH "denis pilat"); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:35:53 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43EB0CF9.1080406@st.com> Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:36:00 -0000 From: Denis PILAT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020920 Netscape/7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Andrew STUBBS , Eli Zaretskii , 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> <43EA2A39.4000107@st.com> <20060208173951.GA31572@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; 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/msg00207.txt.bz2 > > >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 ? Denis