Re: [Help-nano] nano built from source on Debian Stretch has no cursor

[Benno Schulenberg]

Hello Antifa,

[When you answer, please answer to the list, not to me.]

Op 21-11-17 om 17:56 schreef ⚡ Anti Antifa ⚡:
> I'm totally newbie a linux user. My question is obviously crap, but i can't 
> find any place where i can get help.

Which places did you try?  Did you read the README file?

> Looking for some information i found this dependicies for building nano:
>
> libncurses5-dev texinfo groff libslang2-dev libutf8proc-dev libgpm2 libtinfo5 
> libtinfo-dev libgpm-dev libncursesw5 libncursesw5-dev

Did you install those?  Where did you read that nano needs that stuff?
Because it is not in the README.  At least libslang2-dev and libutf8proc-dev
should not be needed (but they won't do any harm, either).

> At the xfce4-terminal i tried pass an arguments, to ./configure script like:
>
> ./configure --enable-nls --with-slang

Don't use --with-slang.  It exists only so that Debian can build a
nano-tiny without needing ncurses.  But with Slang, several of nano's
features don't work.  So, unless you absolutely need it (in which case
you can explain why you need it), don't use it.  It's much better to
run configure without any options:

  ./configure

In most cases, it will give you the nano you want.

> and this works fine! I got new version nano! But when i open any files i
> don't see mouse pointer. It don't blinking.

That's probably an effect of using --with-slang.  As said: don't use it.

Benno