Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:29:05 -0700 From: "Peter S. Housel" <housel@cx281057-a.irvn1.occa.home.com> To: Brian Dean <brdean@unx.sas.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: emacs / ncurses - problem somewhere Message-ID: <199910291929.MAA35072@cx281057-a.irvn1.occa.home.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Brian Dean <brdean@unx.sas.com> of "Fri, 29 Oct 1999 13:56:47 EDT." <199910291756.NAA20672@dean.pc.sas.com>
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> Ever since the libtermcap / libncurses consolidation, change emacs has
> problems positioning the cursor and properly updating the screen for
> character-only devices like the console. It also affects the display
> in an xterm in non-X mode, i.e., when DISPLAY is *not* set.
>
> This is emacs 20.4, by the way on current as of yesterday. I've tried
> emacs from packages as well as a freshly built one from the ports and
> both exhibit the problem.
>
> Note that emacs works fine when it brings up is own window due to
> DISPLAY being set.
>
> Has anyone else seen this and already have a fix or know for sure
> whether this is an emacs bug or a FreeBSD bug?
I filed a bug report for this. I fixed it in Emacs with the following
patch. I think it's a FreeBSD bug, though.
-Peter- housel@acm.org
--- /tmp/tparam.c Fri Oct 29 12:27:03 1999
+++ tparam.c Thu Oct 7 23:07:24 1999
@@ -290,6 +290,9 @@
case 'D': /* %D means weird Delta Data transformation. */
argp[0] -= 2 * (tem % 16);
break;
+ case 'p': /* from terminfo */
+ p++;
+ break;
}
}
else
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