From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 5 17:22:46 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D558110656F0; Mon, 5 Jan 2009 17:22:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ed@hoeg.nl) Received: from palm.hoeg.nl (mx0.hoeg.nl [IPv6:2001:7b8:613:100::211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E7968FC52; Mon, 5 Jan 2009 17:22:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ed@hoeg.nl) Received: by palm.hoeg.nl (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 18AD01CCFB; Mon, 5 Jan 2009 18:22:43 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 18:22:43 +0100 From: Ed Schouten To: David O'Brien Message-ID: <20090105172243.GO14235@hoeg.nl> References: <200901040020.n040KIcc041121@svn.freebsd.org> <20090104120434.GF93900@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20090104121331.GC14235@hoeg.nl> <20090105171523.GC50568@dragon.NUXI.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Zz8eIV9MTSc31S3o" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090105171523.GC50568@dragon.NUXI.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: Kostik Belousov , svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r186731 - head/sys/dev/syscons/teken X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:23:05 -0000 --Zz8eIV9MTSc31S3o Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello David, * David O'Brien wrote: > Why xterm and not vt100? The reason I'm proposing xterm, is because it is the best supported terminal type out there. Example: if we would use TERM=3Dvt100, we would only get black & white. If we use TERM=3Dvt100-color, we do get the colors, but unfortunately we won't be compatible with other operating systems. Solaris, for example, has no termtype called vt100-color. This means the user has to change TERM by hand. TERM=3Dxterm has proven to be very portable across different operating systems and there are a lot of other pieces of software that try to mimic it. At least the Terminal application in OS X, GNOME's gnome-terminal, maybe KDE's Konsole as well. I hope that answers your question? --=20 Ed Schouten WWW: http://80386.nl/ --Zz8eIV9MTSc31S3o Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkliQeMACgkQ52SDGA2eCwVogwCfURlPVXsPi3NwQx7frR81QLQ3 WNkAn3/5v6FfmNLpvv89KWBYCEgcz1Ej =9dbw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Zz8eIV9MTSc31S3o--