On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 10:44:49AM -0400, Thomas E. Dickey wrote: > >I'm a bit confused really; the xterm-r6 definition in misc/terminfo.src > >has kdch1=\E[3~. The xterm-r6 definition in debian/xterm.ti has > >kdch1=\177, and I'm pretty sure we get that from the xterm source > >distribution... I wonder why they diverged? > > I'm not 100% sure, since some of the changes are old. I see looking at > xterm's terminfo history that kdch1 was originally \E[3~. In August 1996, > there's a change to make it \177. I don't see that in any of my patches > (though I did make other changes to the terminfo around then - added the > ech string). > > The XFree86 CVS only shows "updates" for the change comment on that file. > So who and why the change was made - I doubt that the answer is > forthcoming. I don't see any xterm-fixes for that period in XFree86's > changelog other than mine, and doubt that David Dawes recalls who > submitted the change. > > ncurses's terminfo is maintained separately, and I probably ignored this > since when I compare the two, I'm focused on the XFree86 flavor - > xterm-r6 and xterm-r5 are in xterm's file just for convenience.
Right, I understand. Since the terminfo shipped with xterm is primarily of interest for the "real" and current xterm, and the terminfo shipped with ncurses is supposed to cover a wide variety of all kinds of oddball terminals, I am inclined to take only the entries describing our xterm from debian/xterm.ti (i.e. from the xterm source); let ncurses's misc/terminfo.src supply things like xterm-r6. As a side effect, that would fix this problem for Vincent. Does that sound reasonable? Hmm, I just checked - Red Hat's xterm-r6 terminfo uses \177 so they must be getting it from xterm. My Solaris box is down. HPUX uses kbs=\177 but has no kdch1 at all (that's for "xterm"). Darwin uses kdch1=\E[3~ for xterm and xterm-r6. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
