On 2006-12-22 10:07:25 -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > I've seen some confusing comments about Mac OS X "curses" versus "ncurses", > but am left with the impression that it's still ncurses (in a different > directory, etc, but still the same code).
Mac OS X 10.4.x uses ncurses, even with the curses API. > Even still, 5.4 is nearly three years old, and there's a year-old > 5.5 release which Mac OS X should be using. We could say the same thing for the current Debian/stable. Now I just hope that Mac OS X 10.5 will use ncurses 5.5. > > > Also note (as you already did) that there's a known workaround > > > (use the terminal description that uses the single-character ^N > > > and ^O rather than \E(B, etc. > > > > But this time, these characters break "less"! > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=399848 > > That's odd, since "less" has always been a termcap application. > Perhaps it's a regression, e.g., changes by someone using a terminfo > underneath. According to ldd, less uses libncurses (not libtermcap). The less man page says: Less uses termcap (or terminfo on some systems) [...] /usr/share/doc/less/README.Debian doesn't say anything. > > And I don't know if this is related to changes in ncurses: > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403612 > > Since "less" uses only the termcap interface, it would only be > related to changes in that one area. Changing the terminfo database (e.g. with infocmp to retrieve some data + tic to install them, possibly modified, in my $HOME directory) changed the behavior. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
