Re: [Nano-devel] None

[Chris Allegretta]

On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 06:07:28PM -0500, David Benbennick wrote:
> Nickolai,
> 
> I've seen some problems like this using Nano under Putty or Windows Telnet
> (but not this bad).  I think the problem is with your curses or ncurses
> library.  (When I upgraded to the newest ncurses my problems went away.)
> 
> It is possible to install ncurses in your own directory.  You can get the
> latest version from http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/.  Install it to, for
> example, /tmp/ncurses.  Now you just have to make Nano see the new version
> of ncurses.
> 
> First, copy the new ncurses.h file to the Nano source directory, so Nano
> will see the right header file.  Then open Nano's Makefile, and replace
> the line
> 
> LIBS = -lcurses
> 
> with
> 
> LIBS = -L/tmp/ncurses/lib -lncurses
> 
> assuming you installed the new ncurses in /tmp/ncurses.  Finally, open
> Nano's config.h, and replace the line
> 
> /* #undef HAVE_NCURSES_H */
> 
> with
> 
> #define HAVE_NCURSES_H
> 
> Let me know whether that works.
> 
> 
> > and those function perfectly in the exact same environment (except for
> > Emacs in the text mode, of course).
> 
> Do you mean that when you open Emacs at the console, it has the same
> problems?  I think that indicates it's a curses problem, since Emacs uses
> curses.  (Also, Pico doesn't.)

Indeed.  For the cygwin portion of this issue, I downloaded cygwin at 
work and was able to duplicate the problem with most $TERM values, ansi 
looked especially bad.  However on my wife's computer which has an older 
installation of cygwin, all $TERM values worked fine, even ansi.  So I 
suspect this is an issue of the ncurses currently being shipping by 
cygwin.  If you installed the cygwin program under Windows, you should 
be able to install a new ncurses library over top of the defective one 
regardless of Administrative rights,  otherwise David's recommendation 
can apply to cygwin as well for installing in an alternate location.

Chris A
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