Re: Help with libcurses and lynx under NetBSD-9 and -current?

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 07:37:55 +0930, Brett Lymn wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 02:32:39PM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> > 
> > Huh?!  ^J does NOT have that side effect, ttys onlcr does.  Which
> > should be turned off for curses output, shouldn't it?
> > 
> 
> Not always.  You are right it is ttys that is doing it.  The bug was
> that cursor down with onlcr on always moved the cursor to the first
> column of the next line.

Right, right, and my question is: why do we have onlcr on for curses
output?


> Window(1) doesn't use ^J for cursor down so the output was
> stair-stepping.

Do you mean curses code was running with onlcr and was compensating
for its own bug?


-uwe