Related to this post, winpty (never heard of it before) at least partially fixed the curses problem I had posted on the msys2 discussion forum before, and no clues had emerged.
The curses program, plus simple test curses programs I had presented, previously produced error messages like the following and crashed: $ txu1-tpl-eg1.exe Redirection is not supported. $ With "winpty txu1-tpl-eg1.exe" the program at least starts up, looks perfect visually. The program responds to keyboard commands (eg, q to quit). Pressing ENTER goes to a submenu, and that works. Unfortunately, the arrow keys, PgUp, PgDn, Home, End keys don't work. They work correctly when the program runs under a windows 7 command window. Does anybody have a clue why the arrow keys do not work for running a pdcurses program under mintty / winpty? Thanks, Daniel PS - http://blog.toonormal.com/2012/11/17/gcc-msys-mintty-pdcurses-winpty-and-good-times-in-the-shell/ is a related post I found, in case helpful for anyone. On 1/26/2016 2:52 AM, Ray Donnelly wrote: >> >> When I run gdb in the mingw64 environment (I haven't tested others), it >> behaves weirdly. Specifically, If I press the up arrow, instead of scrolling >> through the previous commands, it moves the caret up on the screen, and from >> there just goes crazy (printing text and seemingly random places on the >> screen, no accepting commands, etc.) > > Yes. It's to do with mintty. Use "winpty gdb" instead. We should > probably make wrappers like we do for most other REPL things. File a > bug if you wouldn't mind (or better, make pull requests - follow the > examples in python or something like that). > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Msys2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
