On 11. 2. 2016 5:24, Daniel Goldman wrote: >> I'm still surprised that mc works fine for you guys. >> Does your /usr/bin/mc.exe come from MSYS2 (just making sure)? > > Yes. Look at the attachments I previously sent. > >> Also, can you check your `TERM` environment >> variable and output of `chcp`? > > From a windows 7 "command prompt": > > D:\msys64\usr\bin>chcp > Active code page: 437 > > D:\msys64\usr\bin>printenv | grep TERM > TERM=cygwin > > I have no idea why TERM is set to cygwin. It's not something I remember > intentionally setting. However, it seems likely that TERM=cygwin has > something to do with mc.exe working correctly in "command prompt" here. > > So I did an experiment. In windows 7 "command prompt", I ran "set > TERM=ansi-nt" and tried running MSYS2 mc.exe program. It started, in black > and white instead of color, but was mostly unresponsive, no cursor keys > worked, at least ^O worked, and ^D allowed me to exit. Next, I ran "set > TERM=cygwin" to revert, and things worked perfectly next time I ran mc.exe > program.
Ha! I stand corrected. It seems that MSYS2 mc really does know how to handle the Windows console and my environment was the broken one. I noticed I had LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and after unsetting it, mc started rendering fine. I've updated the wikipage to say "can work, can break" instead of "usually breaks" to reflect this. Thanks for your patience. >> Do you have Ansicon, Clink, Cmder, ConEmu or >> anything similar installed and enabled? > > No. I do have cygwin installed, never use it. > >> I don't think winpty is supposed to be configurable. > > So it seems. All I know is winpty does NOT work correctly in this instance, > as I previously explained. From mintty / winpty combination, the pdcurses > program starts, but the cursor keys do not work. Is the program source code available? -- David Macek
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