[hpa@freya.yggdrasil.com: Re: Console changes around 1.6.69 (?)]
Daniel Barlow (jo95004@sable.ox.ac.uk)
Fri, 8 Mar 1996 10:42:34 GMT
> I see that the behavior of the Linux console driver changed
> somewhere around 1.3.69 in ways that confuse emacs and the GNU
> readline library. For example, the console no longer automatically
> wraps to next line when you try to write past the rightmost on the
> screen, although this is not the only difference.
Sounds more like the bug in ncurses 1.9.8a to me. It leaves the
terminal with automatic margins turned off when an ncurses app
finishes running.
The ncurses team know about it, and it will be fixed in the next
version.
Daniel
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panic("bad_user_access_length executed (not cool, dude)");