Subj : Ncurses 6.0 and newer versions
To   : Marcin Lukasik
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Tue Sep 26 2017 17:21:40

Hello Marcin,

On Tue Sep 26 2017 19:30:18, Marcin Lukasik wrote to All:

 ML> Upgrading ncurses from 6.0+20170527 to 6.0+20170902 (right when it was
 ML> packaged for the Arch Linux testing repo) broke Golded for me (of
 ML> course after recompiling it). Namely, box-drawing characters didn't
 ML> appear properly, and areas that were supposed to be empty weren't
 ML> cleared, for example when I went from a post with a longer subject to
 ML> one with a shorter subject, a big portion of the longer one remained
 ML> visible. Downgrading to 6.0+20170902 or 6.0 stable fixed this, but it
 ML> doesn't feel like a clean solution, as this issue didn't affect other
 ML> programs.

I also had this experience with Archlinux and a UTF-8 TTY console. I reverted 
back to 6.0+20170527 for a bit, which made things work again. However, after 
trying out tmux for the first time, I ended up with an even better fix.

Go ahead and upgrade to 6.0+20170902, then install tmux, and run:

tmux new <path to golded> -C<path to golded config>

Now you'll even see the correct arrows being used, rather than ">", borders 
will contain line drawings, and the scroll bar should appear correctly with box 
drawings as well.

What we did find out, was that it may have been something just on Archlinux, or 
the way it is precompiled for some distros, as Maurice does LFS, and his latest 
patched ncurses (6.0+20170911 I believe) was specifically compiled for wide 
ncurses support only, and he had no problems at all.

Regards,
Nick

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