From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Cc: Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: eterm-color not in ncurses/terminfo (and name clash with eterm.org)
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 01:07:36 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908070807.n7787aEY018502@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
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")
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> writes:
> >>>>> On Mon, 4 May 2009, Samuel Bronson wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> 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:
> <ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.7/ncurses-5.7-20081129.patch>
>
> 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...
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-04 10:45 eterm-color not in ncurses/terminfo (and name clash with eterm.org) Ulrich Mueller
2009-05-04 16:12 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-05-04 19:27 ` Samuel Bronson
2009-05-04 21:43 ` Ulrich Mueller
2009-05-04 23:41 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-05-05 3:58 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-05-05 6:09 ` Ulrich Mueller
2009-08-07 8:07 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
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