Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-30 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Monday, April 29, 2013 5:30:03 PM UTC-4, Chris Davies wrote: >> Thomas Dickey wrote: >> > What I recall of the PuTTY FAQ (a specific pointer would help) is that >> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html > that's not what I meant by "specific". A mi

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Monday, April 29, 2013 5:30:03 PM UTC-4, Chris Davies wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > What I recall of the PuTTY FAQ (a specific pointer would help) is that > > > it's roughly comparable to rxvt > > > > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html that's not what I meant

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-29 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas Dickey wrote: > What I recall of the PuTTY FAQ (a specific pointer would help) is that > it's roughly comparable to rxvt http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sunday, April 28, 2013 11:30:01 AM UTC-4, Chris Davies wrote: > berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > I know that most terminal emulators support most VT100 escape > > sequences, which are based on ecma-48 > > > > I'd extend that to suggest that most terminal emulators support the > ma

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-29 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Dim 28 avril 2013 17:59, Roger Leigh a écrit : > The standard is not intended to be > implemented in its entirety from my reading of it We have the same document :) But it says that to be compliant (it says exactly that it would be a "limited conformance"), one must say which parts of it are im

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-29 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Dim 28 avril 2013 16:45, Chris Davies a écrit : > lxterm supports blink. PuTTY (on [at least] Windows) also supports blink > - > just not by default. > > tput blink; echo hello; tput sgr0 hello <- this flashes in > lxterm > Thanks, I will try this one. >> So, I would like to kno

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-28 Thread John Hasler
Roger Leigh writes: > One thing which has puzzled me for some time is why xterm, and all the > other terminal emulators, including the Linux console, chose the VT100 > to emulate. To support commercial software that had VT100 escape sequences hard coded. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-28 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 02:36:47AM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I know that most terminal emulators support most VT100 escape > sequences, which are based on ecma-48, but as far as I know, they > are not able to support the full standard. By example, they only > support 7 bit seque

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-28 Thread Chris Davies
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I know that most terminal emulators support most VT100 escape > sequences, which are based on ecma-48 I'd extend that to suggest that most terminal emulators support the majority of VT220 sequences, not just the VT100 subset. > but as far as I know, they ar