Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 11:44:30 -0800 (PST) From: Eduardo Chappa To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: nano and TERM In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII *** Igor Pechtchanski (pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu) wrote today: IP> I'm not sure why pico works, possibly because it has an internal IP> termcap entry for a dumb terminal and uses that when the IP> terminfo/termcap database cannot be found. Pico as built for cygwin uses the termcap entries found in /etc/termcap, there's no internal termcap to it. Pico (for cygwin) does not use terminfo. Nor does Pine. My experience as maintaner of Pico (and Pine) is that Pine/Pico have less problems in terms of control of the screen when termcap is used (as opposed to terminfo/curses/ncurses). Pico defaults to some settings (row, colums) when it can not find them, but advanced screen control is done by the termcap library. -- Eduardo http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/