Re: problem using backspace / inserting characters in pre-filled multiline fields

[Frank van Vugt]

>> When this happens, using backspace on say the second row will only delete
>> characters up untill the first column of the second row, i.e. the cursor
>> will *not* wrap to the end of the first row. Also, inserting characters on
>> the first row simply won't work anymore.

>> Is this known behaviour?

>That last part doesn't sound like something I've seen.  I'm looking into
>it now.

ncurses-5.4-20050903.patch.gz solves the backspace part of the problem, 
allthough deleting characters on the end of say the second row won't bring 
words from the beginning of the third row back to the second as soon as there 
is enough space, but that may be a bit too much for the existing logic in the 
code, I haven't checked.

Let me clarify the insert part of the problem a bit more. It's not the first 
row per se, it's all rows that end with a character of a word that 'normally' 
would have been wrapped. These lines don't accept any (regular) characters 
anywhere (they do accept backspace now).
 


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Best,




Frank.