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Subject: Re: zcurses input timeout and window resizing
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From: Andrew Janke <floss@apjanke.net>
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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 06:49:17 -0400
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On 9/30/15 5:41 AM, Andrew Janke wrote:
> I'm running in to an issue with the interaction between "zcurses 
> timeout"/"zcurses input" and terminal window resizing. On OS X, it 
> seems that if you resize a window while waiting on a "zcurses input", 
> the timeout will effectively be ignored, and "zcurses input" will 
> block until actual input is received.

> Any known workarounds to this? Maybe it's dependent on the version of 
> curses? My OS X zsh is linked against libncurses.5.4.dylib; the Debian 
> one against libncursesw.so.5.
>
> The "tetriscurses" example program seems to stay live through window 
> sizes on the same OS X system, and I can't figure out what it's doing 
> differently to keep the timeout working through window resizes.
Think I partially answered my own question here: I rebuilt a zsh 5.1.1 
against ncurses 6.0 on OS X, and on that one, the timeouts work through 
window resizes. Still curious how tetriscurses seems to work even with 
ncurses 5.4.

Andrew