Re: [Lynx-dev] LYMainLoop.c [PATCH]

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> Doug Kaufman dixit:
>
> > Does putting a \r at the beginning of the message cause problems with
> > any of the operating systems supported by lynx?
>
> On (all?) conformant/standard C systems, a \r will "just" move
> the cursor back to the beginning of the line.

That depends on the stty setting of ocrnl.  Generally (but you cannot rely 
on it), curses sets the terminal output modes to allow it to "just" move.
However in the case we're talking about, it's using the user's stty 
settings.

Anyway, it sounds as if DK's working around a bug in PDCurses.  The 
proper place for that fix would be in stop_curses().

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