Re: [Nano-devel] adding a word-completion feature to nano

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2016, at 12:46, Sumedh Pendurkar wrote:
> On Saturday 29 October 2016 02:00 PM, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > You cannot check bytes for being word forming, you need to
> > check characters, which means that now and then you have
> > to skip a byte, or two, or three.
>
> For this issue I am planning to use move_mbleft and move_mbright 
> functions that word return no of characters to skipped.

Yes, that sounds right.

> > You need to have libncurses5w or libncurses6w (note the "w")
> > and the corresponding libncurses5w-dev or libncurses6w-dev
> > packages installed.  Please report what you needed to install
> > for configure to pass without error, so I can update README.GIT.
> 
> I had to install libncursesw5-dev..
> That worked.

Okay.  Will change.

Benno

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