ports/125324: editors/the (3.2) looses cursor when compiled with PDCurses-3.3

[RandomUser]

The following reply was made to PR ports/125324; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: RandomUser <rannumgen at globaleyes.net>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, rannumgen at globaleyes.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/125324: editors/the (3.2) looses cursor when compiled with
 PDCurses-3.3
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:13:35 -0600

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 The attached not was sent to Mark Hessling, THE editor author. It
 appears that THE-3B3 includes a change that breaks with REXX-1.76. I
 have not received any response yet. Prior versions of THE do not exhibit
 this problem.
 
 The testing that I have done shows that PDCurses-3.3/-3.4 both break the
 cursor handling in THE-3.1/-3.2, making the X11 version of THE
 practically useless.
 
 At this point, without doing an exhaustive debugging of THE and
 PDCurses, I would say that the problem with THE & PDCurses belongs in
 the PDCurses camp. I would also say that THE-3.B3 is not ready for
 release. Therefore - THE should be frozen at v3.2 until further notice.
 
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