[tin-bugs] BUG REPORT tin 2.6.3 release 20231224 ("Banff")

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

Hello, Urs.
Thanks for the quick response!

On Friday, 02 February 2024 at 11:25, Urs Janßen wrote:
> In article <mailman.2128.1706832900.1791.tin-bugs at tin.org> you wrote:
[...]
> > The issues I can reproduce are:
> > 1. "Bad command. Type 'h' for help." is displayed almost all the time.
> > 2. Using the left or right arrow key to enter/leave groups brings up "Do you
> >    want to abort this operation? (y/N)" message, but only if you pressed some
> >    other key earlier. Entering/leaving the same group works.
> > 3. Trying to quit using 'q' key doesn't work. Repeated pressing of 'q' brings
> >    up "Save configuration before continuing? (Y/n)" message.
> > 
> > Originally reported downstream to me:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2251437
> > 
> > Any clues how to debug this?
> 
> Does it also show up in a previous Fedora release?
> (with packaged tin version from Fedora 38 and/or tin 2.6.3 build from
> Fedora 39 src-rpm). If not - what changed (besides the tin version)?

No. tin works correctly on F38.
A lot has changed, actually:
gcc:     13.0.1         => 13.1.1
byacc:   2.0.20221106   => 2.0.20230521
gettext: 0.21.1         => 0.22
gnupg2:  2.4.0          => 2.4.3
icu:     72.1           => 73.2
make:    4.4            => 4.4.1
ncurses: 6.4-2.20230114 => 6.4-5.20230520
openssl: 3.0.7          => 3.0.8

There's a new GNOME version, as well (44 => 45).

> Does it also show up with a previous tin release? If not, are the same
> (curses/termcap/... releated) configure options used?

Yes, the issue occurs with 2.6.2 as well.

> Does it show up in all terminals used? i.e. xterm vs. xfce4-terminal vs. ...
> If not, does the output from stty -a differ in the terminals?

According to the original reporter:
>> Almost works in "konsole" terminal -- everything works as expected,
>> left arrow works, almost OK but also show that "Do you want to abort
>> current operation?" when focus is switched off that konsole window.
>> However, in konsole it is just an annoyance -- that message
>> disappears when focus is switched back to that window and everything
>> continues to work as expected. In Gnome (gnome-terminal) or Mate
>> (mate-terminal) it is totally unusable.

I don't have my F39 machine at hand at the moment, but I think I tried
in xterm and it was the same. I'll check again and confirm.

> From Fedoras tin.spec:
> |        --enable-ncurses \
> |        --with-screen=ncursesw \
> |        --enable-locale \
> 
> From tins doc/INSTALL:
> | --enable-curses (default: off)
> [...]
> | This option is deprecated, use --with-screen=ncurses (see above) instead.
> 
> -> drop "--enable-ncurses".
> 
> (same for --with-pcre2-config=/usr/bin/pcre2-config --without-pcre; if you
> give --with-pcre2-config you don't need --without-pcre.
> BTW. --enable-color and --enable-locale are the defaults and can be omitted).

Ok, I'll adjust the configure call and see if that helps. What about
"--enable-prototypes" option?

Thanks!

Regards,
Dominik
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