From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: eterm-color not in ncurses/terminfo (and name clash with eterm.org) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 01:07:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <200908070807.n7787aEY018502@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> References: <18942.51042.70991.953283@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <200905041612.n44GCuFM023842@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <18943.24974.205788.878501@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249632614 15312 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2009 08:10:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 08:10:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Samuel Bronson , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 07 10:10:06 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MZKWb-0002mG-Mg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:10:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48339 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MZKWa-0002IX-Un for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:10:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MZKW4-0001ho-P3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:09:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MZKVz-0001cQ-K3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:09:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51159 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MZKVz-0001c7-BD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:09:27 -0400 Original-Received: from barrelv2.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.114]:54875) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MZKVy-0008Nb-RU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:09:27 -0400 Original-Received: from godzilla.ics.uci.edu (godzilla.ics.uci.edu [128.195.10.101]) by barrelv2.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n7787aDd016109; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 01:07:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: (from dann@localhost) by godzilla.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id n7787aEY018502; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 01:07:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <18943.24974.205788.878501@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> (Ulrich Mueller's message of "Mon, 4 May 2009 23:43:42 +0200") Original-Lines: 39 X-ICS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ICS-MailScanner-ID: n7787aDd016109 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@godzilla.ics.uci.edu X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:113766 Archived-At: Ulrich Mueller writes: > >>>>> On Mon, 4 May 2009, Samuel Bronson wrote: > > > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > >> When term.el starts, it sets up both TERMCAP and TERMINFO, so > >> applications should work just fine without any support in the standard > >> terminfo distribution. > > > Hmm. I don't see any mention of TERMINFO in term.el except for the > > code that actually sets it ... it should be documented. > > > Regardless: How does that work over SSH? (I do wish they had thought > > this sort of thing out better when they designed terminfo in the first > > place, but I think it's a bit late for that now...) > > That's the point, with the TERMCAP and TERMINFO variables it works > fine most of the time, but there are some situations where it doesn't. > Having it in the general terminfo files would help in such cases. > > But please disregard my original message; looks like eterm-color has > made it into ncurses meanwhile: > > > However, if I compare etc/e/eterm-color.ti with the entry now in > terminfo.src, then the latter has the following additional entries: > > msgr, > blink=\E[5m, > sgr=\E[0%?%p1%p3%|%t;7%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p4%t;5%;%?%p6%t;1%;%?%p7%t;8%;m, > u6=\E[%i%d;%dR, > u7=\E[6n, > > Are these correct, or should they (or some of them) be removed from > the entry in ncurses/terminfo? I added msgr, u6 and u7 to etc/e/eterm-color blink is wrong No idea what that long string is supposed to do for sgr...