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On 21/8/2005 23:05:05, Ciaran McCreesh (ciaranm@g.o) wrote: |
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> Now the proposal. This isn't something that can happen immediately, but |
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> it's something I'd like to see us working towards: |
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> * De-cripple the standard xterm definition and remove restrictions from |
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> programs which can make full use of xterm's capabilities. |
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This bit, obviously, has to wait until at least the more common packages have |
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been adjusted for their own TERM value. In the interim, how about creating a |
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'xtermstd' entry with the de-crippled definition, and altering the (presumably |
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few) packages that supply fully-compatible xterms to use that, with a view to |
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changing them back to 'xterm' later once the rest of the world is in line. |
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I think it's also worth considering leaving the existing xterm entry crippled, |
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and just accept that abuse of it is too entrenched and widespread to fix. |
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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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I use PuTTY when I have to use Windows; it's also available for Unix. |
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PuTTY has a configuration setting to set the terminal type string; by default |
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this is set to "xterm" but it's easy to change to something else. This is a per-session |
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configuration option (under Connection->Data for anyone interested), so it's easy |
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to set it to (say) "putty" for connections to some boxes and "xterm" for others. |
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Which means creating a "putty" terminfo definition would be workable. |
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BTW re. colours - PuTTY seems to do 256 colours the same as a standard |
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xterm, as far as I can tell. However that's comparing PuTTY 0.58beta with |
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xterm-1.96 built with Cygwin on Windows from xorg-6.8.1, so it may just be |
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they're deriving their colours from the same (Windows) palette. The only |
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difference is that the first colour block shows up as 'X' in the cygwin xterm, |
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but as a black block in PuTTY. The first 16 colours are black, red, green, |
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yellow, blue, magenta, cyan and white (8 x dim then 8 x bright), followed by |
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a 6x6x6 colour cube with black at #16, green at #46, blue at #21, red at |
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#196 and white at #231), then a 24 step greyscale black -> white. |
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