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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fixing the TERM mess
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:09:38
Message-Id: 20050824130742.38e1a3b9@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fixing the TERM mess by "Sven Köhler"
1 On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 02:10:04 +0200 Sven Köhler <skoehler@×××.de> wrote:
2 | After the all, the whole mess can IMHO only be cleared up, if there's
3 | something like a universal terminal-type, and the application could
4 | ask the terminal for it's feature-set. So i'm not aware if this is
5 | possible, but this seems to be the only _really_ reliable extensible
6 | way to do this. I don't see the point in define lots of all new
7 | terminal-types.
8
9 There is none. Even if such a thing existed, it wouldn't solve the
10 "does this terminal have any weird bugs" issue.
11
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13 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
14 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
15 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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