Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:12:58 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why doesn't cons25 have cs in termcap info? Message-ID: <20080621171258.GA27863@saltmine.radix.net> In-Reply-To: <20080621152338.GA5394@saltmine.radix.net> References: <1214022191.00087286.1214008802@10.7.7.3> <20080621152338.GA5394@saltmine.radix.net>
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--5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 11:23:38AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:32:58PM -0400, Kitche wrote: > > Since some ports actually need cs(change_scroll_region) to run for exam= ple > > tmux is one. I believe tmux does not change the term correctly which co= uld > > be the issue as well. But according to the author the term needs cs to > > even run. > >=20 > > I m just wondering why cons25 is missing this from it's termcap, since > > I've been working on adding it to cons25 so that some ports will work > > correctly. >=20 > It might be a recent change - I've made a to-do item to investigate it. > afaik, it's not supported in "older" versions of FreeBSD. >=20 > At the moment for instance, I'm reading the 6.0 source for >=20 > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/vidconsole.c ditto for=20 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/syscons/scterm-sc.c and http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/vidconsole.c > The corresponding screen(4) manpage doesn't mention it. >=20 > (pcvt supports it, but that's a different emulator from cons25). It sounds as if tmux needs some fixes - cons25 isn't the only terminal lacking scroll-regions. --=20 Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFIXTYNtIqByHxlDocRAlkPAJ9+hDubYui2XEhsHHYUCLOVLIGmtgCgmkEr 7AhfkB2EdFd57PiSh03rCz8= =7U1p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP--
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