From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: ef_dva@yahoo.com (Dusan)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:42:48 +0200
Subject: [sup-talk] ncurses hack
In-Reply-To: <1250563136-sup-432@masanjin.net>
References: <1250538875-sup-2195@javelin> <1250563136-sup-432@masanjin.net>
Message-ID: <1250580593-sup-1346@archpc>

Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Tue Aug 18 04:43:18 +0200 2009:
> Reformatted excerpts from Edward Z. Yang's message of 2009-08-17:
> > Today, I decided to throw in the towel and patch my copy of ncurses to
> > have the appropriate fix for international characters + tabs.  Does
> > anyone know of a list of instructions for carrying this out?
> 
> Try http://sup.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?UTF8. If you're running Sup
> git, I've made a nice branch for this:
> 
>   $ git branch --track ncursesw origin/ncursesw
>   $ git checkout ncursesw
>   $ cd ncurses-0.9.1/
>   $ ./run-this-for-sup.sh
> 
> Which will generate an ncurses.so file in lib/. You can then switch back
> to master or next and it should pick it up.
> 
> This should fix many wide-character issues but it won't fix all of them,
> because there's still no way of determining the display width of a
> unicode character (e.g. Chinese characters take two columns to display).
> So the display still ends up funny.
> 
> Ruby 1.9 has better encoding support but I don't know if it fixes this.

I am new sup user and love it very much.

Not being able to fix search/save and other edits is huge show-stopper.
I do what I read somewhere:

-start search, get garbage results
-kill that buffer with 'x'
-start another search but instead of typing search term again first
repeat: press up, delete search garbage, press up, delete search
garbage, repeat until there is nothing to delete
-type another search term and search now works 100%

This works for searches but edits like save still fail (or save X((%^1X file
so if you can find it you can rename it).

Looks like fixable bug to simulate what I did for searches? Repeat in
code ten times 'up arrow', '50 x delete char'? Sorry if I am wrong.

Using sup and not being able to properly search or save is too wrong.

If there is any config/version I should report to get this fixed just
let me know. Without waiting for new ruby of course -- I do have proper
results when I repeat deleting ritual.

Thanks