Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 14:14:33 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ncurses update? Message-ID: <19981105141433.A17448@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <199811051916.LAA04119@dingo.cdrom.com>; from "Mike Smith" on Thu Nov 5 11:16:23 GMT 1998 References: <199811051916.LAA04119@dingo.cdrom.com>
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In the last episode (Nov 05), Mike Smith said: > Coming out of a discussion on the -alpha list, I was contacted about > this. We're still at 1.8.6. What's the justification for not > upgrading? The new ncurseses rely heavily on terminfo; to get good termcap emulation, you need to configure with --enable-termcap --enable-getcap --disable-overwrite. And even then it does an internal termcap->info translation on the entry. I tried to maintain a set of patches that would rip all the terminfo stuff out of ncurses, but I gave up; ncurses kept changing too fast for me to keep up :) And the cap->info translation time is negligible anyway, even on a 486. But apart from that it works fine. I've been running with ncurses 4.2 for a long time with no problems. > From: dickey@clark.net > To: mike@smith.net.au > > sounds like someone's confused the terminfo setf/setb for > setaf/setab. This is in my faq: I believe screen has the same problem; I remember having to fix it every time I recompile. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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