#14405: Replace termcap with ncurses
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Reporter: vbraun | Owner: jdemeyer
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.10
Component: packages: standard | Resolution:
Keywords: | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers:
Authors: Volker Braun | Merged in:
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by jpflori):
Replying to [comment:48 vbraun]:
> Its really readline that breaks, as demonstrated by the fact that it
falls back to single-line editing. Ihmo its pointless to improve support
for the dead libtermcap, but then its your time ;-)
Can we consider it is broken because it uses single-line editing mode?
Isn't that to be expected with termcap?
(I really have no clue...)
Note that this single-line mode is ok in gp and python, it's only in
ipython its broken, so there is a problem with ipython (and its been there
since at least 0.10, we just encountered it recently in Sage because the
way we use ipython must have changed).
Anyway, I agree that multi-line editing looks nicer so just ignoring this
ipython/readline/termcap problem and using ipython/readlines/ncurses is a
sensible workaround/fix.
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