On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Anton Monroe wrote: > Hmm. Something I've noticed in Ncurses-based apps is that blank areas > don't erase text. For example, in Pinfo, when I page down, some of the > previous screen still shows in the blank areas. It's probably a common > problem with a simple explanation. Some capability that needs to be > set or unset in my terminfo entry?
Yes - that sounds as if you are using a terminal description with "bce" set, on a terminal which does not clear the background on an erase. That reminds me that rxvt has a bug - one of the cases for erasure does not work - which I work around in ncurses by leaving out the "bce". -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
