Re: pdcurses readline-mingw backspace key in windows console

[Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>]

Jon Ringle wrote:
> Folks,
> 
>  
> 
> I ran into the same problem regarding the backspace key with 
> pdcurses/readline/mingw in a windows console  that was discussed a 
> couple years ago here 
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/gdb-patches/2006-02/msg00180.html.
> 
>  
> 
> This problem still exists today with pdcurses-3.3 and I believe that I 
> have found the problem and have submitted a patch to the pdcurses 
> project here:
> 
>  
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2021778&group_id=30480&atid=399168 
> <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2021778&group_id=30480&atid=399168>

And if I read the pdcurses maintainer's reply correctly, the response is
"if you want terminfo, look somewhere else."  Readline is not going to
become a curses-based application, so it appears that using pdcurses
with readline is a dead end.

Chet
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/