Re: [Help-nano] Backspaceproblem and glibc 2.3 problem

[Jordi Mallach]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 11:20:43PM +0000, Paul Fotheringham wrote:
> I'm using Mandrake 9.0 and I have two issues with nano that someone could 
> perhaps help me with. Firstly, I have been using nano-1.0.9-1.i386.rpm for 
> months now and there seems to be a problem with moving backwards through a 
> line, either with the cursor or with backspace. The cursor doesn't always 
> move the same number of spaces as there were keystrokes and the appearance of 
> the line on the console becomes mangled. Internally it's fine but it does 
> require rather a lot of Ctrl-L'ing :)

Hmm. Looks like broken ncurses again. What version do you have?

> when invoked at the command line. Is there anything I can do apart from 
> compile glibc from source?

Of course :) Recompile nano package, I guess is a lot more easy.

Jordi
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