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to: NICHOLAS BOEL
from: WILFRED VAN VELZEN
date: 2017-09-27 08:16:00
subject: Re: Ncurses 6.0 and newer

Hi Nicholas,

On 26 Sep 17 17:30, Nicholas Boel wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "Ncurses 6.0 and newer versions":

 WV>> Maurice Kinal and Nicholas Boel recently discussed this in the
 WV>> ASIAN_LINK area (which you can rescan from me). But I think Nicholas
 WV>> used the same solution as you...

 NB> Downgrading was only temporary. One of the main reasons I use Archlinux is
 NB> for the latest and greatest stable upstream software. tmux fixed any issue
 NB> with the latest version of ncurses.

Well, for me with an even older ncurses:

Source RPM  : ncurses-5.9-53.4.src.rpm
Build Date  : Sun Oct 25 06:47:41 2015

tmux fixed some things, but broke others. So I'm not using it regurlarly,
except when I want to read some utf-8 chars. So I regard it as a kludge, not a
(true) fix.

Wilfred.

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