From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15467 invoked by alias); 19 Jul 2008 20:09:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 15452 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Jul 2008 20:09:09 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from va-67-76-174-81.sta.embarqhsd.net (HELO CVAEX1.VERTICAL.COM) (67.76.174.81) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:08:52 +0000 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: pdcurses readline-mingw backspace key in windows console Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:09:00 -0000 Message-ID: <4DD3AF7ECBBC43409BA36508938D01852CF05A@CVAEX1.VERTICAL.COM> In-Reply-To: <48820CB0.9000502@case.edu> From: "Jon Ringle" To: Cc: , , , , , Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-07/txt/msg00377.txt.bz2 Chet Ramey wrote: > 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. What would you recommend then for a mingw readline-based application that is run from a Windows console? I suppose I could just provide my own terminfo stubs and link with that to satisfy readline... The only reason that I was trying to link in a curses library was to satisfy readline terminfo dependencies. Jon