GNU bug report logs - #50444
Remove support for the curses library

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 00:29:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: notabug

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #21 received at 50444 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, stefan <at> marxist.se, 50444 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50444: Remove support for the curses library
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 23:28:44 -0400

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If curses support is actually needed for some systems
which people still run Emacs on, and it does work on those
systems, there is no need to delete it.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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