Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude
On 2006-07-11 23:49:23 -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:
> > Note: you shouldn't use the ncurses that come with Mac OS X. They are
> > buggy.
>
> hmm - to the best of my knowledge, the "ncurses that come with Mac OS X"
> are some version of ncurses, just like Debian/stable, Debian/testing, etc.
This is version 5.4. Recompiling ncurses 5.5 (and Mutt) fixes the
problem. I don't know if it was specific to Mac OS X.
> Are you concerned with a specific bug, or is this just a suggestion to
> use Linux instead?
A specific bug: with Mutt, the thread display could lead to garbage
(line graphics) on the screen. I could write a testcase to reproduce
the problem.
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