lynx-dev Slang - ncurses - TeraTerm (was Re: 'reloading' lynx.cfg)

[Michael Warner]

On or about 25 Jul, 1999, T.E.Dickey
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> > If the change was minor, I may just have missed it (I don't  
> > use a very colorful scheme).  Also, might something specific 
> > to the terminal emulator (TeraTerm, in my case) mask the     
> > effect?                                                      
>
> slang does not - yet - handle TeraTerm's color model.  (It
> works fine with ncurses - with an appropriate terminfo).

I think you lost me there - every thing I use that does color
(mutt, vim. trn, and lynx (except for the (unsupported) lss, etc.
stuff)) seems to do OK with slang + TeraTerm.

The only reason I don't use ncurses is laziness, I guess.  I
futzed around with getting the terminfo right for a while, got
it at least mostly right, but another problem cropped up that
probably had nothing directly to do with ncurses, but that went
away when I rebuilt with slang.  I keep planning to go back and
pick it back up, but just haven't gotten around to it.  I much
prefer doing thing The Right Way, all else being equal.

Just in case there's a quick answer, the problem with the ncurses
lynx was:

I pipe an email from mutt to a script that filters the mail
through a html'izing perl script to a temp file, and then starts
lynx on the temp file.  The ncurses-built lynx I was using would
flash the page up and immediately exit.  Using mutt's wait_key
would hold the display on the screen, but that wasn't too useful
:).

I figured it wasn't directly ncurses because starting lynx
that way also makes 'e'diting files impossible ("Warning: Input
not from tty...", vim's unusable) regardless of slang/ncurses,
didn't see anything obvious in the trace, I'm using the notorious
tcsh, I don't know much about shell programming, yadda yadda.
Just seemed like too many more likely possible explanations.

One ncurses-specific factoid - TeraTerm does come with a box
drawing font ("Tera Special", I think it 's called), contrary to
the term description comment, as I recall it.

-- 
Michael Warner
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