Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 12:30:58 -0400 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: terminfo/termcap entry (was Re: [PATCH] fhandler_console.cc) Message-ID: <20000606123057.F1606@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <20000606140850.26089.qmail@web109.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000606140850.26089.qmail@web109.yahoomail.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 07:08:50AM -0700 On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 07:08:50AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: >--- "Bradley A. Town" wrote: >>Sigh. I broke `less' with the previous termcap entry. The problem >>appears to be that either `less' or the termcap library expects there >>to be a setting for `sr' (terminfo `ri') for scrolling text down. You >>can fix it by adding "sr=\EM" to the termcap file and "ri=\EM" to the >>terminfo file. Modified versions are provided below. >> >>I had left it out because ncurses's `lrtest' gets hosed after a few >>seconds if it's set, but that's the only program I've seen have >>trouble. That might be attributable to a bug in cygwin, a bug in >>ncurses, or a bug in `lrtest'. >> >>Sorry. > >I wanted to give my terminfo values for cygwin since Brad had problems >with lrtest. I posted this to cygwin-apps. This cygwin terminfo >passed all tests. My terminfo is below Brads. I'm readying a new release of termcap which will incorporate Earnie's changes soon. I'm just putting the finishing touches on a script that will automate this kind of activity. After that, I will get to Bradley's changes. I'm a little leery of terminfo -> termcap translated changes since I've had problems with that before. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com