Re: Strange terminal with ncurses 6.0 and readline

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 07:39:53PM +0200, BERTRAND Joël wrote:
>       Hello,
> 
>       I'm using readline and ncurses on a huge program I write for a long
> time (http://www.rpl2.net). Yesterday, I have upgraded ncurses from
> last 5.9 patch to 6.0. I have seen some trouble with readline. For

More than one question:

        + what was the date for the "last 5.9 patch"?

        + what configure options did you use with "6.0"?
          (still pre-release, to check for regressions)

        + "6.0" can be configured to be the "same" as 5.9 using this option:
                --with-abi-version=5
          Did you try building ncurses with that?

        + what I recall of readline is that it does not use much of ncurses'
          screen optimization.  But I haven't looked at it for quite a while.
          You _might_ have to recompile it to work with "6.0".
          Did you do that?

> example, backpspace doesn't work anymore :
> 
> rayleigh:[~/gopher/rpl2/build-amd64/src] > rpl -is
> +++RPL/2 (R) version 4.1.22 (Mercredi 15/07/2015, 13:20:38 CEST)
> +++Copyright (C) 1989 à 2014, 2015 BERTRAND Joël
> 
> +++Ce logiciel est un logiciel libre sans aucune garantie de fonctionnement.
> +++Pour plus de détails, utilisez la commande 'warranty'.
> 
> RPL/2> azerty      1234
> 
> 1: 1234
> RPL/2>
> 
>       All backspaces are printed as regular space even if 'azerty' string
> is delete. Arrow keys doesn't work anymore as expected. If I link
> the same program against ncurses 5.9, it runs like a charm.
> 
>       I don't understand interaction between ncurses and readline. My
> program is statically linked against readline _and_ ncurses.

I'll have to investigate - simply have been short of time...

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