Re: [Nano-devel] nano 2.0.7pre2 is out

[Jordi Mallach]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 09:07:43PM -0600, David Ramsey wrote:
> 5. Slang curses emulation support is now removed entirely.  I'm aware
> that this is controversial, but the last straw was when testing (3) with
> it and finding out that Ctrl-C would completely stop working after
> breaking out of the executing program, regardless of whether the
> terminal was reinitialized, whether signals were disabled again, or
> anything else I tried.  Even the Slang author doesn't recommend its use
> anymore, and nano is hardly any smaller when built with slang if
> --enable-tiny is used.  Furthermore, since no one has ever reported the
> aforementioned bug under Slang, I'm guessing that it isn't widely used.
> Sorry for any inconvenience.

Hi David,

I'm sorry to say the inconvenience for Debian is quite major: the
nano-tiny version used in Debian Installer uses Debian because in such a
minimal system ncurses isn't available.

However, nano-tiny isn't affected by the command execution bug you
mention, as the "From Command" feature isn't available in the small
build. So, if problems arise on ly when doing more fancy stuff than
"editing text", which is what nano-tiny in Debian is capable to do,
basically, I suggest we keep SLang, but requesting a SLang build will
force a build with less enabled features.

Without SLang, I'm not sure what the consequences are, but it could mean
not using it for the Installer systems of Debian and Ubuntu.

Jordi
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