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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: need to unbreak Emacs build on AIX
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 09:28:33 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmk-WLdBp6YmZC+aKUfhavdM6pXbzV+=HKXoS-hTDQNDSQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07c30857-1d1f-4c9d-d2f1-915f16bb91ee@cs.ucla.edu>

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> My guess is that the issue is rare, as the original curses library has
> been obsolete for quite some time. And given that curses does not work
> in Emacs 27 and this is the first bug report about it and I found it
> only by doing some extensive portability checking, perhaps we should
> instead drop support for curses, and insist on ncurses or tinfo or
> terminfo. I wouldn't be surprised if the Emacs curses code has other
> issues that we don't know about because nobody uses it.

Paul, just some clarifications: are you saying that curses is completely
broken in Emacs 27?  And the curses library is obsolete?

Is there any reason to keep it around?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-06 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-01 23:17 need to unbreak Emacs build on AIX Paul Eggert
2021-01-02  6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-03 20:56   ` Paul Eggert
2021-01-04  3:25     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-06 15:28     ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-01-06 19:29       ` Paul Eggert
2021-01-06 19:38         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-07  6:20           ` Paul Eggert

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