Subj : ncurses
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Tue Sep 12 2017 16:07:16

Hello Maurice,

On Tue Sep 12 2017 05:26:50, Maurice Kinal wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 NB>> I have both libncurses.so as well as libncursesw.so

 MK> Okee dokee.  I decided to go for the gold with just libncursesw and
 MK> the latest git version as shown below;

 MK> ----- '<Esc>:read !tic -V' starts
 MK> ncurses 6.0.20170909
 MK> ----- '<Esc>:read !tic -V' ends

Sounds good. I haven't checked to see if the latest was available via pacman 
just yet, but I will. ;)

 MK> Anyhow I then compiled the latest version of the golded+ source I
 MK> could find - gpsrc-115-20170303.tgz - which at the moment I don't have
 MK> the URL handy but will find it if it becomes important.

No need, really. I get it via CVS.

 MK> 'make PLATFORM=lnx WIDE_NCURSES=1' to build it and once built fired it
 MK> up and BINGO!!!  It works with the UTF8 line drawing characters just
 MK> like mom used to do.  :::evil grin:::

Odd. When I fire up golded without screen it changes all the line drawing 
characters to ascii letters, defined in ncurses.h. Now I begin to wonder if you 
must _only_ have wide ncurses installed in order for golded's make option for 
WIDE_NCURSES=1 to actually work as expected.

 NB>> Take a look at 'screen'. I just installed it

 MK> I haven't used it for ages now but now that you bring it up it seems
 MK> like it would have been a good idea with the previous attempt where
 MK> golded+ wasn't playing nice with ncurses.

Sure, but now that you did a little tinkering, you have an even better working 
ncurses! ;)

 NB>> Then you just tinker with it a bit, and find other things to try!

 MK> Speaking of which, instead of 'screen' try tmux.  I tried that years
 MK> ago and liked it better than 'screen' but neither played nice with a
 MK> framebuffer linux terminal.

Oddly enough, I'm fairly certain ArchlinuxARM uses a framebuffer, but I have no 
idea what it is and don't remember installing it myself. Maybe the RPi3 has one 
built in? I've seen 4 penguins and the tie-dye splash screen on bootup, 
though..

 MK> Anyhow it appears I have a 'fixed' golded+ working now ... still using
 MK> vim as this reply shows.  ;-)

Well of course! Why change it up now? ;)

Regards,
Nick

.... "Не знаю. Я здесь только работаю."
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