On Sun, 27 Oct 2019 08:25:28 -0700 Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote: > It's a missing ncurses feature in the older PuTTY that's trigged by > an update to ncurses or terminfo in CentOS 8. PuTTY 0.72 added > support for the REP (repeating character) command and the newer > terminfo adds that as an xterm feature. The Epsilon author spotted it > in the PuTTY changelog. > > So any curses app that uses repeating characters will have this > problem when used with an old PuTTY version. Nice trouble shooting. It's always satisfying to get to the root of things. Cheers, Peter