Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:43:51 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: ed@80386.nl Cc: kostikbel@gmail.com, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r186731 - head/sys/dev/syscons/teken Message-ID: <20090105.174351.1172770788.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20090105172243.GO14235@hoeg.nl> References: <20090104121331.GC14235@hoeg.nl> <20090105171523.GC50568@dragon.NUXI.org> <20090105172243.GO14235@hoeg.nl>
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Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> writes:
: Hello David,
:
: * David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> 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=vt100, we would
: only get black & white. If we use TERM=vt100-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=xterm 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?
Also, xterm is a superset of vt100. Most vt100-only programs will
just work inside an xterm.
Warner
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