On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-08-20 18:34 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote:
gnome-terminal hasn't had any arguable relationship with the "xterm-color"
terminal description for more than ten years.
It should also be noted that xterm-color is derived from xterm-r6 which
is pretty obsolete. Alastair, why don't you use xterm or
xterm-256color which do have the key entry?
(as a general rule, ncurses maintains "vte" and "gnome" for users of
VTE-based terminals).
It's just not entirely trivial to use them because at least
gnome-terminal uses "xterm" by default and there are no options to
change this in its settings. But I digress.
yes, and it doesn't appear that it'll be fixed anytime soon.
(I could digress on the way $TERM was broken in several vte-based
terminals within the past year...)
Regarding the question at hand, would you consider adding kcbt to
xterm-color? If not, I'll probably close the bug since we're not going
to deviate from upstream here.
From my point of view, xterm-color is a legacy entry - adding kcbt to
it creates an expectation on the part of other users that the key "should"
be recognized in whatever corresponds to a "standard" implementation.
fwiw, Mac OS X has been the only recent genuine user of the entry
(do "infocmp nsterm xterm-color" to see the associated bug reports)
and this week I see that their latest version sets TERM to xterm-256color
by default (I expect bug reports for the differences ;-).
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