From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 4 18:47:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA16760 for current-outgoing; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 18:47:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from sequent.kiae.su (sequent.kiae.su [193.125.152.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA16754 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 18:47:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by sequent.kiae.su id AA09892 (5.65.kiae-2 ); Sat, 5 Apr 1997 05:38:34 +0300 Received: by sequent.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Sat, 5 Apr 97 05:38:34 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.ru (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA01842; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 06:34:27 +0400 (MSD) Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 06:34:24 +0400 (MSD) From: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: modify termcap to support both A[FB] and S[fb]... In-Reply-To: <19970404221051.PZ02960@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > I object against your objection. :-) ncurses (libdialog?) seems to > have made a simlar arbitrary decision about using Sf/Sb. None if them > is ``more correct'' than the other one, and i remember a discussion in > the XFree86 team that AB/AF are supposedly from SysV land. We don't need to add A* entries, as I already say, the reason is misunderstanding between S* and A* treating. Sb not equal to AB and Sf not equal to AF. Sb (setb) stays as "set background color" AB (setab) stays as "set ANSI background color" similar things for Sf/AF The difference is that S* entries could put any color (like user-defined) while A* entries restricts to ANSI colors only. The rule is: if terminal can't redifine colors and its colors are ANSI ones, we should use A* entries, else S* entries (not both of them in any case). This subject reveal a bug in cons25 termcap entry, A* should be there, I'll fix it ASAP. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/