Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 06:38:48 +0300 From: "Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu Subject: Re: Small syscons change Message-ID: <FT8NV5leS9@astral.msk.su> In-Reply-To: <199501130247.UAA18252@bonkers.taronga.com>; from Peter da Silva at Thu, 12 Jan 1995 20:47:12 -0600 (CST) References: <199501130247.UAA18252@bonkers.taronga.com>
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In message <199501130247.UAA18252@bonkers.taronga.com> Peter da Silva
writes:
>> elvis thinks that the "am" termcap capability means that the cursor
>> automatically wraps to column 0 of the next line when a character is
>> printed in the last column. Is this what "am" means?
"am" means _normal_ linewrap, not VT100 one.
>Traditionally on VT100 style terminals you turn off "am" and turn off ALL
>line wrap. it's annoying in the shell but it makes things work for pretty
>much all curses variants.
>There is no termcap or terminfo attribute that I know of that marks DEC
>style line wrapping.
It is "xn" (termcap) and "xenl" (terminfo), in addition to "am".
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