Re: mvwprintw

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Bob Rossi wrote:

> > Aside from that, the two functions should be interchangeable.
>
> Thanks Thomas! That's the problem. You noticed I was linking in
> -ltermcap. If I remove this from the link line, everything works as
> expected. This is great news considering I won't have to modify ncurses
> or readline.

good.  This can still be a problem if readline is built using the rpath
option.

> Now, does this mean that CGDB will no longer be able to support the
> termcap library? I use termcap to get capability names like End, Home,
> ....

ncurses's termcap interface provides that.  The main difference between
terminfo-based support for termcap and a real termcap library:

        a) the tgetent() call in the latter returns data that the
           application can parse directly (xterm uses this feature,
           if available).

        b) strings (function-keys aren't affected) such as cursor-movement
           are in terminfo form in the former, rather than termcap.

> I lookup both the info from termcap and terminfo and if I find either of
> the input, I match the data.
>
> Thanks again!
> Bob Rossi

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