Comments on: OS X 10.6.3 broke ncurses

By: Arrow keys don’t work in htop on OS X in Terminal Drija

Arrow keys don’t work in htop on OS X in Terminal Drija — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:14:04 +0000

[…] answer on SO links to a blog entry that describes some other investigations into the problem. One reported workaround is to copy the […]

By: Florent Delannoy

Florent Delannoy — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:13:56 +0000

Thanks for the link!

By: Morgy

Morgy — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:03:04 +0000

I just came across the same problem. I currently have the old (working libs) on a public dropbx. http://amaras-tech.co.uk/u/1u

By: Florent

Florent — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:03:15 +0000

I’m not really sure. It seems to work in my computer under 10.6.4, but it might be because of the fiddling around I did to make it work in 10.6.3.

I didn’t receive any new answer from Apple since my bug report has been closed as duplicate of bug #7812932. Apparently you can contact devbugs@apple.com with this bug number to ask them if it’s been resolved or not.

By: Gapato

Gapato — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:48:24 +0000

Do you know if this has been fixed in 10.6.4 ?

By: Fix ncurses in OS X 10.6.3 | Upon my shoulder

Fix ncurses in OS X 10.6.3 | Upon my shoulder — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:51:25 +0000

[…] response to my blog post about the issue affecting arrows under OS X 10.6.3, Jonathan Groll pointed out that copying the ncurses libraries from an old 10.6.2 install would fix […]

By: Severin

Severin — Mon, 03 May 2010 09:59:36 +0000

Does anyone have the 10.6.2 version of the library and could send it to me?

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Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:09:52 +0000

[…] This post was mentioned on Twitter by VinÃcius Baggio. VinÃcius Baggio said: Descobri 2 coisas: parece que o ncurses do 10.6.3 tÃ¡ zuado (http://bit.ly/cnmn3T) e que eu posso usar hjkl pra mover o cursor. #win […]

By: Bob Farrell

Bob Farrell — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:19:01 +0000

Thanks for this – I’m the author of bpython (a fancy Python shell that uses curses) and we’ve had a bunch of people complaining on the mailing list about the problem, so glad to know it’s not my fault ! I’ll use this post as a reference in the bug report.

Thanks again.

By: Florent

Florent — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:18:04 +0000

Hi!

Thanks for the comment: this solution does work.

However, I’m not sure what the side effects could be. If Apple brought some more changes to the code base, replacing ncurses libraries with older ones might trigger some other errors, couldn’t it?