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Re: PATCH: curses module

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From: Clint Adams <clint@xxxxxxx>
To: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: PATCH: curses module
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 07:15:08 -0400
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On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:13:42AM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> I suppose it might be sensible to test for multibyte support early on in
> configure and if it's present put ncursesw to the front of the library
> search list?  (With last week's patch --with-term-lib=ncursesw works.)

On Debian I need to do --with-term-lib=ncursesw and
CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/ncursesw , though I am led to believe
that with the next version of ncurses, the wide support will
be in the main library.

> Would it be more consistent to make zcurses the command name and
> the action the first argument (c.f. zle, ztcp, zsocket, ...)?

Sounds fine.  I'll try to make this adjustment and add some
documentation in a few hours.

References:
- PATCH: curses module
  - From: Clint Adams
- Re: PATCH: curses module
  - From: Peter Stephenson

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