Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:59:55 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: des@des.no Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, ed@80386.nl, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, rafan@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r194628 - head/lib/ncurses/ncurses Message-ID: <20090630.085955.63054488.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <86prcl23k8.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <20090623015306.GB27380@svm.csie.ntu.edu.tw> <20090623075352.GJ48776@hoeg.nl> <86prcl23k8.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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Dag-Erling_Smørgrav <des@des.no> writes:
: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> writes:
: > I've noticed the xterm entry we have in FreeBSD is somewhat
: > inconsistent with the one from other operating systems. [...] Is
: > this a known issue?
:
: I don't know about that one, but our xterm entry is intentionally broken
: in at least one area: it does not contain the sequences necessary to
: restore the previous screen when you exit from less, top etc. Be
: prepared for a flame war if you try to fix it; apparently, some people
: believe that their personal preferences are more important than
: correctness, not to mention everybody else's preferences.
I personally find that behavior to be horrible... But that's what
makes it a flame war.
Last time this BBQ came up, I thought it was agreed that there would
be a xterm-XXX that didn't do this behavior for those folks that think
the current behavior is harmfully wrong...
: Is there a good reason for not using the (presumably correct and
: up-to-date) termcap file that ships with ncurses?
About 4-5 years ago I discovered that we had many entries that were
more up to date than that file, but there has been an ncurses import
since then...
Warner
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