From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Davis Herring" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: read a reply from the terminal Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:54:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <41118.128.165.123.18.1186178044.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> References: <200707140242.l6E2gpBC015778@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200707150034.l6F0YYxT013883@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200707151530.l6FFU15h003138@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200707152042.l6FKgT31009360@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: herring@lanl.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186178124 14464 80.91.229.12 (3 Aug 2007 21:55:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 21:55:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Dan Nicolaescu" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 03 23:55:21 2007 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 1IH574-0004Xt-DZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 23:55:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IH572-0005e0-Mk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:55:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IH56y-0005dj-U1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:55:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IH56p-0005aq-Qz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:55:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IH56p-0005al-LU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:54:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.65.95.54] (helo=mailwasher-b.lanl.gov) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IH56J-0007ZB-7w; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:54:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailrelay3.lanl.gov (mailrelay3.lanl.gov [128.165.4.104]) by mailwasher-b.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.6/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id l73Ls5PV001959; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:54:05 -0600 Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (webmail1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.106]) by mailrelay3.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id l73Ls5jk024915; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:54:05 -0600 Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by webmail1.lanl.gov (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l73Ls5En007702; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:54:05 -0600 Original-Received: (from apache@localhost) by webmail1.lanl.gov (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/Submit) id l73Ls4UX007700; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:54:04 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: webmail1.lanl.gov: apache set sender to herring@lanl.gov using -f Original-Received: from 128.165.123.18 (SquirrelMail authenticated user 196434) by webmail.lanl.gov with HTTP; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:54:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200707152042.l6FKgT31009360@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-6.el3.2lanl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-PMX-Version: 4.7.1.128075 X-CTN-5-MailScanner-Information: Please see http://network.lanl.gov/email/virus-scan.php X-CTN-5-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CTN-5-MailScanner-From: herring@lanl.gov X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:76008 Archived-At: > I have now tested the code using a timeout of 0.1 on xterm, rxvt, > gnome-terminal, konsole, putty, and a very old xterm (from an old > Solaris). It works fine for all of them. All these terminals support > the "\e[>0c" query. > I also tested it on a Linux console, that does not support the query. Sorry to bring this up so much later, but is a timeout of 0.1 always appropriate? Is there ever a circumstance where a remote host would need to provide the information, or is it always trapped by a local terminal driver in such a case? Davis -- This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during shipping.