Re: [readline-mingw] backspace key and TUI size

[Andrew STUBBS <andrew dot stubbs at st dot com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:03:33PM +0100, Denis PILAT wrote:
> > Our host is i686-pc-mingw32, gdb is compiled under cygwin with 
> > "-mno-cygwin" flag to avoid cygwin dependencies.
> > We also use pdcurses library since ncurse is not available on windows.
> > I think that's why you don't see the problem. With this patch, I'm not 
> > using the tputs() function anymore on Windows, as it was not used for MSDOS.
>
> Ah - we (CodeSourcery) don't use a curses library at all; just the
> standard Windows and MinGW DLLs.  See win32-termcap.c.  Are those
> functions not being used for you?

No, we don't use those functions. The win32-termcap doesn't support the 
TUI. PDcurses does (mostly), but the symbols clash, so win32-termcap is 
disabled.

Andrew