Thanks, Thomas. I was hoping the Terminfo expert was reading. On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:42:29PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > version of Ncurses that is (probably) already on your computer. Slang > > is reputedly better at dealing with broken terminfo entries than > > Ncurses, and MC uses Slang by default. But I suppose Ncurses might > > be better in some circumstances. > > That's because > > a) slang used to supply hardcoded defaults to match rxvt if some > information was missing (actually there were also some > hardcoded defaults for a few other terminals, but rxvt was the > target). Most of that was removed early in the 1.4.x series. > > b) slang doesn't use some capabilities that ncurses does (this > is especially noticeable in the way it clears trailing blanks > on a line).
I'll change it to something like "Slang and Ncurses sometimes use different capabilities of the terminal, so you may be able to work around a broken terminfo entry by using a different library". Hmm. Something I've noticed in Ncurses-based apps is that blank areas don't erase text. For example, in Pinfo, when I page down, some of the previous screen still shows in the blank areas. It's probably a common problem with a simple explanation. Some capability that needs to be set or unset in my terminfo entry? Anton _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
