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--- $Id: README.MinGW,v 1.10 2020/02/02 23:34:34 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: README.MinGW,v 1.11 2020/07/11 13:31:30 juergen Exp $
-- Author: Juergen Pfeifer
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in order to parse the terminfo paths correctly. Terminfo paths should
always be separated by a seeeemicolon,even when running under MSYS.
-To support regular expressions properly, ncurses under MinGW should be
-linked against the gnurx regex library, which must be built separately
-under MinGW. See
-
- ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/dependencies/libgnurx-src-2.5.zip
-
All the options above are - like the whole Windows support -
experimental.
- Workarounds for MinGW's filesystem access are necessary to make infocmp
work (though tic works).
-To support terminfo, we would need to have an ioctl() simulation for the
-serial and networked terminals.
+Recent Windows 10 releases have a new Console implementation that supports
+ANSI-style terminal emulation. Also, there is a new "Windows Terminal" App
+from Microsoft that hosts the new Console in a tabbed user interface. With
+this, it is possble to try using terminfo, the TERM environment varianle
+should be set to ms-terminal.
+