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On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 01:56 +0200, Sven Köhler wrote: |
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> > The termcap method is provided by libtermcap-compat. Most applications |
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> > which use this method only do so as an option for systems where terminfo |
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> > is not available -- for example, for Vim, terminfo vs termcap is a |
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> > compile-time option. The termcap database is limited, generally out of |
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> > date and mostly unmaintained. It will likely not remain in the tree for |
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> > much longer (bug #103105). |
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> Take a look at ncurses. ncurses even comes with a termcap.h in |
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> /usr/include. I think ncurses is source-compatible with termcap and |
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> offers the features needed to acces different terminal types. |
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Its supposed to be, but not always .. we never used to have |
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libtermcap-compat, but I was forced to add that after the minimal vi |
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implementation we had at a time did not work with ncurses ... |
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Martin Schlemmer |
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