Re: Midnight Commander screen corruption w/ built-in editor

["Frédéric L. W. Meunier" <1@pervalidus.net>]

On Sun, 2 May 2004, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:

> On Sun, 2 May 2004, Errol Smith wrote:
>
> > I'm having a problem with mc's editor (4.6.0-4, also tried
> > mc-4.6.0a-20030721 with same issue). (cygwin 1.5.9-1 on 98se)
> > If you are editing a file wider than the screen, sometimes
> > the display becomes corrupted, with odd parts of lines
> > appearing at the left screen edge and the display seems to
> > lose left/right alignment with mc's internal idea of where it
> > is (so if you go to insert a character, it actually gets
> > inserted several characters up the line from where you
> > thought).
>
> I don't think this is Cygwin specific. I also get it (or
> something similar) on Linux.

I confirm it also happens on Linux. Since you wrote it doesn't
for you, I suspect your binary was compiled with the internal
(the default) or an external S-Lang. The Cygwin binary is
linked against ncurses, as is my Linux binary from CVS as of
March 17 (using ncurses 20040417).

I suggest you report it to mc at gnome dot org if you can't
reproduce it on Linux with a binary compiled with ncurses.

Take in mind that ldd showing libncurses doesn't mean the
binary is using it. It may be a dependency from libgpm. Use mc
-V, which here reports "Using the ncurses library".

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