Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 23:27:12 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/14959: incomplete xterm termcap entry (see also bug gnu/5039) Message-ID: <82455.942910032@monkeys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:17:55 %2B1100. <199911180417.PAA12413@lightning.itga.com.au>
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In message <199911180417.PAA12413@lightning.itga.com.au>, you wrote: >The problem is a little more subtle. The meaning of "ti" and "to" termcap >entries make no mention of "saving the screen contents". The description of ti >in termcap(5) is "string to start programs using cursor_address". Yea, I noticed that, but I assumed that it was just an example of less-than-entirely-complete documentation. >There is no >way in termcap to express the operation "save/restore the screen contents", Bummer. There obviously should be. It _is_ a rather significant terminal operation/capability after all. >and >no way to write a program (vi, more, whatever) to either use or not use this >feature. Bummer. (See above.) >Extending termcap (yet again!) with another set of tags for this >feature is probably not feasible. OK. I'll bite. Why not? >So ugly hacks are the only option. For the moment anyway, yes. Definitely. (I don't know any of the history, so I probably shouldn't comment, but... It really does seem strange to me that such a fundamental capability never earned its own pair of two-letter termcap abbreviations. How about terminfo? Are there special terminfo codes for screen save/restore? I haven't worked on SVR4 for quite awhile, so I can't remember.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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