Re: lynx-dev LYNX: cursor showing strangely on screen in newest version

[dickey]

> On Thu, 7 Jan 1999 address@hidden wrote: 
> >Then run vttest (preferably on a 24x80 screen).  It can accommodate other 
> >screen sizes via command-line (that's in a readne), e.g,. 
> > 
> >     vttest 25x80.80 
> > 
> >forces it to fit on a 25x80 screen with the 132-column stuff mapped into 
> >80 columns (not all "vt100" emulators can do 132-columns, and it's useful 
> >to be able to turn that off). 
> > 
> >The program gives a menu - entries are selected by typing the number. 
> >(A '*' runs all of the tests at that level). 
>  
> What was the location for this program again?  Does it just test the vt100 

under my web page.

> emulator itself, and/or curses also?   In this MacOS X Server, I have 

vt100 emulator only.

> to run "resize" in each screen window to get it to recognize the size  
> properly (strangely, I am virtually positive that the version of this 
> Terminal 
> program I used on the first build of X Server _did_ work, because I was  
> amazed I didn't have to "fiddle with it"..). 
>  
> anyhow, supposedly the curses library 'stinks'.. so though it's not my job, 
> since I want a command-line environment to work well, I was wondering if this 
> or some other tools would be good and _easy_ for me to get and build and  
> easily write up a bug to say that X isn't working because program Y said so. 

vttest doesn't cover that detail (one can write a test that gets the screen
size the same way 'resize' can, which is to set the cursor position far past
the lower-right corner and then ask where the cursor got to).


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Thomas E. Dickey
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