multi-line field issues

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Hello,

I am writing an app that uses multi-line fields. I noticed 2 things:

a) ML fields do not store newlines. The output is padded to width. Thus 
while using elsewhere it needs to be worked on.

b) similarly when putting data into an ML field using set_field_buffer, 
all data was being rejected, until I found this has to do with newlines.

I have worked around both these, by splitting and adding newlines while 
saving, and removing newlines and padding while setting. Is this the 
normal practice ?

Is this behaviour likely to be "fixed" in the near future so we don;t have 
to do the above.

(I am using the latest ncurses on OS X - updated through port install).

btw, as a background, I am writing an application generator using DSL 
input (domain specific language). It is coming up very well. I will have 
some questions as I go along.


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