Re: strange char echo

[Scott Furry]

Brian,

Try Ctrl+Shift+underscore to use the "Go To Line" command.
In Nano, this will allow you to enter line number and column number to 
advance the cursor.

'configure' line 9341: "# Check whether --enable-sp-funcs or 
--disable-sp-funcs was given."

There is also the config.log file which should show the configure 
settings used to build ncurses.
It should show lines like:

configure:9338: checking if you want to build with experimental SCREEN 
extensions
configure:9348: result: no

...which covers the test for --enable-sp-funcs or --disable-sp-funcs.

BTW, I'm working with the latest ncurses that includes all patches upto 
the end of October.

Regards,
Scott

Bryan Christ wrote:
> Scott,
>
> My reply on item "b" was basically that that the following yields
> nothing:
>
> ./configure --help |grep sp_funcs
> ./configure --help |grep sp-funcs
>
> opening configure in nano and searching for sp_funcs and sp-funcs finds
> nothing either.
>
> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 21:15 +0000, Scott Furry wrote: 
>   
> > Apologies...wasn't sure how you were using ncurses. Had to throw out the 
> > 'corner case'
> >
> > My bad...should have directed you up a few more lines.
> > If you look up at line 9341 in 'configure' (in the ncurses directory) 
> > you will see a reference to..
> > --enable-sp-funcs or --disable-sp-funcs
> > This also will cause NCURSES_SP_FUNS to be enabled/disabled.
> >
> > To see all the available options with a build, you can either type
> > ./configure --help | more      <-- pipe the output
> > - or -
> > ./configure --help >> somefile.txt      <-- my prefered option as then I 
> > can look at all the available options in a text editor
> >
> > If this isn't the case then I may have to defer to the 'gurus' on this one.
> >
> > Good Luck.
> > Scott
> >
> > Bryan Christ wrote:
> >     
> > > a) is unlikely because the terminal is Gnome Terminal.
> > > b) i do not see a configure option with_sp_funcs (or anything like it)
> > > and when i look at the symbol table i do see echo and noecho.
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 20:26 +0000, Scott Furry wrote: 
> > >   
> > >       
> > > > Two schools of thought....
> > > > a) hardware
> > > > b) software
> > > >
> > > > For a) assuming some kind of external comms - do you have some form of 
> > > > loop back?
> > > > I'm going to say this is probably unlikely and would be special case. 
> > > > However, I have to throw it out.
> > > >
> > > > For b) when you did you initial build (assuming you built from source) 
> > > > did you config using the flag "with_sp_funcs"?
> > > >  From the source see the configure file (line 9350 sets the flag 
> > > > NCURSES_SP_FUNCS) and lib_echo.c (NCURSES_SP_FUNCS is used to enable the 
> > > > build of the noecho function at line 77).
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Scott
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Bryan Christ wrote:
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > > > does anyone know what might cause characters to be echoed to the screen
> > > > > even though noecho() was called at startup?