Re: multi-line field issues

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:33:49PM +0530, Sentinel wrote:
> I believe I had earlier reported that a multi-line field will not display 
> anything if there are newlines in the string passed to it through  
> set_field_buffer.
>
> Today, I was testing one program which was displaying a file created  
> using:
>
>>     ls -ltr | nl > test.t
>
> I found 2 new issues:
>
> It will not display anything if:
>
> 1. TAB is present ("nl" places a tab)
> 2. Any non-print characters. (my "ls" uses colors which introduces ansi  
> escape characters).

that _sounds_ like a bug report (I did not get far enough this weekend
to investigate this, since I was clearing out backlog...)

> I am wondering if this feedback could be incorporated, or is ncurses only 
> looking at bug-fixes.

...it's on my to-do list...

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