Re: [Mingw-users] Running ncurses-linked MinGW apps from MSYS Bash

[Earnie <ea...@us...>]

> From: Eli Zaretskii 
> 
> When a MinGW program linked with libncurses is run from the MSYS Bash, it
> sees TERM=cygwin in the environment, and libncurses then uses the terminfo
> data for that terminal, instead of using its internal Windows console
driver.
> However, using the cygwin terminfo entry doesn't work
> well: e.g., the "clear to end of line" sequence ("\E[K" according to
"infocmp
> cygwin") appears verbatim instead of actually erasing text.
> 
> I'm guessing that this doesn't work because the necessary magic for
interpreting
> these sequences is inside the MSYS DLL, and so won't work in any non-MSYS
> program.  Is that correct?
> 

I believe so but does TERM=xterm help?

Earnie