[csw-maintainers] New in testing/: ncurses 5.7

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Fri Jan 9 23:25:13 CET 2009


Hi,

Am 08.01.2009 um 18:17 schrieb Sebastian Kayser:
> Philip Brown wrote:
>> Perhaps you could specify which ones you dropped to fix things, for  
>> the
>> benefit of the current (in progress) ncurses maintainer
>
> The capabilities were HPA and VPA (horizontal and vertical absolute
> positioning).
>
> $ TERM=xterm TERMINFO=/opt/csw/share/terminfo infocmp -1 | ggrep  
> '[hv]pa'
>        hpa=\E[%i%p1%dG,
>        vpa=\E[%i%p1%dd,
>
> Details and ncurses behaviour after i deleted vpa are documented in  
> the
> bug that i had filed against mutt [1].
>
> Sebastian
>
> [1] http://opencsw.org/bugtrack/view.php?id=2942.

There is an updated ncurses for sparc/x86 with 32 and 64 bit in
testing. Please verify that this solves your problem. Mutt has
been recompiled to not use ncurses any more, so I can't exactly
reproduce your testcase. The capabilities have been taken out
from the description of 'xterm'.


Best regards

   -- Dago



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