Re: lynx-dev Pasting text into the latest Windows 32 lynx

[dickey]

> 
> I know it is possible to paste text properly into lynx compiled using 
> mingw32/gcc and the native crtdll.dll of Windows 95/98.  The question 
> is why can't the same thing be done to the distribution version? 
>  
> Is it the problem of the ncurses library, for instance?  The latest 
> slang for Windows library has an extremely good Windows-specific 
> code for getting text and mouse clicks.  It is one of those pieces 
> of code that you need to talk to Microsoft mavens in Seattle to get, 
> and I suspect it is missing from the ncurses library.  Since it also 
> can be compiled under the distribution's Borland C compiler (after you 
> truncate the file names), I am surprised that ncurses is still being used. 

they're not using ncurses for win32 (that's pdcurses)

I've seen nothing that quantifies a performance difference between
slang and pdcurses.  Do you have measurements, or only opinions?

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