Re: [vile] Vile console glitches

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:03:30 -0500 (EST)
Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Dec 2009, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:48:54 -0500
> > Brendan MacDonell <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> 2. SIGWINCH seems to be handled improperly no matter the controlling
> >> terminal, which results in numerical garbage trailing behind the
> >> cursor across the display. Again, xvile's behavior when resizing
> >> remains correct.
> >>
> >
> > This problem was recently reported under FreeBSD.  It turned out to be
> > a bug in ncurses.  Sorry, I don't remember exactly which version, but
> > you might want to check whether there's an update available.
> 
> hmm (I recall problems with ifdef'ing SIGWINCH in Mac OS X, but don't
> recall any recent problem with FreeBSD).  At the moment I'm on 
> Debian/testing, using current ncurses...
> 

It was a problem with the editor ee which was tracked to an old version
of ncurses under FreeBSD IIRC.

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Gary Jennejohn