Re: lib/51819: curses vs. news/tin display problems

[Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 03:30:01PM +0000, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> 
>  The problem seems to be that on NetBSD scrl(3)
>  
>       If a scrolling region has been set with the setscrreg() or wsetscrreg()
>       functions and the current cursor position is inside the scrolling region,
>       then only the area inside the scrolling region is scrolled.
>  
>  and otherwise the whole window is scrolled.
>  
>  ncurses always scrolls the scroll region, regardless of the current
>  cursor position.
>  
>  SUSv2 X/Open curses scrl(3) says that
>  
>    The interaction of these functions with setscrreg() is currently
>    unspecified.
>  

In that case we probably should look at making NetBSD curses follow
ncurses to reduce surprises...

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Brett Lymn
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