NCurses Cursor failed: Failed to enable about grv HOT 6 CLOSED

Thanks for reporting this error. On initialisation GRV attempts to hide the terminals cursor and if it fails treats this as a fatal error. However this shouldn't really a fatal error, as GRV can still be used. It's just that the cursor will appear in the bottom right corner of the screen.

I've updated master not to treat the failure to change visibility of the cursor as an error. Could you pull and build the latest master and see if you're now able to run GRV?

Also just out of interest, which terminal emulator are you using? What's the value of your $TERM environment variable? I wouldn't normally expect hiding the cursor to fail as other Mac users haven't run into this issue.

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This fixes the error and application loads in my terminal. I am using the built in MacOS Terminal, nothing special.

$ echo $TERM
ansi

Here is a screenshot of the grv when it loads now.

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Just a note, once the app launches, I can not seem to figure out how to actually exit the app. I have to close the terminal window to exit. Is that normal or do I just not know the key commands to exit? I tried Ctrl + C and that didn't work. I tried a few things and was not able to exit.

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To exit grv type :q and then hit the enter key. This probably seems a bit cryptic but it is the standard way to exit an application with Vi like keybindings.

Having TERM=ansi limits the capabilities of the terminal which is why a lot of the line graphics appear as letters like ?? and qqq.... If you try running grv as:

TERM=xterm-color grv

instead of typing grv does it look more like this?

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Sorry for the delay @rgburke, but I just wanted to follow up to let you know that the following made everything work as expected. Thanks...

TERM=xterm-color grv

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For others who want to know where this setting is defined on Mac (other than your .bash_profile obviously).

Terminal > Preferences > Profiles > Advanced > Terminfo

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