Re: [vile] Vile console glitches

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009, Gary Jennejohn wrote:

> 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.

oh.  The symptoms for that sounded like sign-extension (passing a char
to addch).

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