On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
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?
perhaps - I'll be checking over the two (and comparing against the X11R6.1 source) just to see that nothing got lost. Checking terminfo seems to be very time-consuming (I've been doing some of that today). But in principle, ncurses should be the source for the various terminals, and xterm to reflect _its_ special stuff.
However, ncurses' xterm-color has kbs=^H (which I don't see a point in changing, since there _are_ no terminals that match it in Debian).
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.
Redhat - yes, that's something on one of the bugzillas. They had been patching things, decided not to, found that people used the changes, want to be like Debian, but upstream ncurses and xterm don't match what they were using. Etc.
Solaris uses kbs=^H, as do the *BSD's. Solaris has no kdch1 in its xterm terminfo (though X11R6.1 does). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
