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On Sunday 21 August 2005 05:05 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> The terminfo method is provided by ncurses. It is considerably more |
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> powerful and has far fewer arbitrary restrictions upon database entry |
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> lengths. It is also less unmaintained than termcap. |
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actually it's actively maintained and the upstream author is a cool guy :) |
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> * Make everything that isn't xterm set its own TERM value. Possibly the |
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> same for things pretending to be rxvt, although this is less of an |
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> issue since I think everything that pretends to be rxvt is "rxvt plus |
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> some patches". |
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actually, latest ncurses + gnome-terminal break because gnome-terminal sets |
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TERM=xterm ... people proposed we revert some changes to ncurses but i denied |
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that in favor of making gnome-terminal export TERM=gnome |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91055 |
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i think the gnome team is just ignoring this though ;) |
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> * Putty? Since I consider sshing from insecure systems irresponsible, I |
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> don't know much about this one, other than that it's another dirty |
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> liar and that said lying has caused various bugs in the past. Perhaps |
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> someone could clarify with details of what it pretends to support and |
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> what it really supports? |
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there is a TERM=putty setting isnt there ? |
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> Before I go any further with this, does anyone have a really really good |
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> reason why we should continue to make lots of users suffer because a few |
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> upstreams don't know what they're doing? |
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sounds like a good proactive step to me |
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-mike |
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