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Re: New terminal capability in fhandler_console.cc


On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 07:36:58PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 01:52:52AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> I don't think it works that way, does it?  I just tried this.  There
> >> is no wrapping.  Characters at the end of the line are truncated.
> >
> >Did you try that under linux? Hmm, I'm perhaps misleaded by the
> >behaviour of the shell.
> 
> Yes.  I still have a little bit of state left on this from when I wrote
> an editor years ago.  I was also involved in the project which eventually
> became ncurses many years ago.
> 
> Anyway, I was pretty sure that there was no wrapping involved.  I have a
> test file, if you're interested.

Thank you but it's not needed anymore. I've just added insert mode and
the `im' and `ei' capability to fhandler_console. You're right, the
wrapping is managed by the shell itself. Fine. That was pretty easy!

Corinna

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