From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 6 0:35:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 663B337B408 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 00:35:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es (v-ger [158.227.6.51]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g467Z1H13724; Mon, 6 May 2002 09:35:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from jose@localhost) by v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g467ZmN00626; Mon, 6 May 2002 09:35:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jose) Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 09:35:48 +0200 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" To: Andy Sparrow Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/mutt-devel Makefile Message-ID: <20020506093548.C236@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es> References: <20020505183918.GA27835@pir.net> <20020505193147.C60593E14@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020505193147.C60593E14@CRWdog.demon.co.uk>; from spadger@best.com on Sun, May 05, 2002 at 03:31:47PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 03:31:47PM -0400, Andy Sparrow wrote: > Both of which are specifically stated to be incorrect (with an explanation > why) by the maintainer of XFree86 xterm on his web page. > > XFree86's 'xterm' is a color xterm, and has been for years. We don't ship > their termcap entry. > > Substituting the XFree86 termcap/terminfo entries for ours apparently fixes > the currently broken behaviour. Yes, but other people does not like some "features" of the xterm termcap entry supplied by XFree86. > > Other OSen do not have xterm-color, though (as has already been > > mentioned, Solaris), so this breaks as soon as you ssh to one of these > > remote machines. As someone who runs Solaris servers from a FreeBSD > > desktop I do this a lot. > > What he said :) > > Also, some OS's have an entry for 'xterm-color' that is NOT the XFree86 xterm, > but an obsolete xterm variant, and this will also break. And I absolutely agree. In fact we also have Solaris and Irix machines, which I hacked (adding a xterm-color entry, or redefining TERM in the session startup scripts). What I wanted to say is that defining termName in XTerm-color is *coherent* with FreeBSD having two distinct termcap xterm entries: mono and color. However, I also think that having those two entries is *bad*. IMHO, the xterm and xterm-color entries should be merged in only one xterm supporting color. Cheers, JMA -- ****** Jose M. Alcaide // jose@we.lc.ehu.es // jmas@FreeBSD.org ****** ** "Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers" -- Leonard Brandwein ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message