From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: George Nachman <gnachman@llamas.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What capabilities do you wish terminal emulators would report?
Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 11:25:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd07ev4hp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB5Rqom-yxMcAgiNo=F1-MjhxqNQ2qRKzvxN1muBFdougATrNw@mail.gmail.com> (George Nachman's message of "Fri, 8 May 2020 00:34:27 -0700")
> My goal is to collect desires from developers of popular applications. What
> capabilities do you wish you could discover about terminals that you don't
> already get from terminfo?
I think more that "which capabilities should be reported", I'd first
focus on a standard way to enable/disable and query (both presence and
activation status) capabilities.
E.g. it should be safe to enable or disable *any* capability, supported
or not.
> They would likely be exposed through a combination of a new
> environment variable and a to-be-determined control sequence that
> reports them.
From where I stand, environment variables are the last resort since they
may get lost along the way or may be inherited unwittingly from elsewhere.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-08 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-08 7:34 What capabilities do you wish terminal emulators would report? George Nachman
2020-05-08 10:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-08 14:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-08 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-05-08 18:29 ` Daniel Colascione
2020-05-08 20:51 ` George Nachman
2020-05-09 6:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-09 19:41 ` George Nachman
2020-05-15 11:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
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