Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:02:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To: Racaille <0xef967c36@gmail.com>
Cc: current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: TERM={xterm-r5,xterm-r6} behaving badly with man(1)
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---559023410-959030623-1185714157=:25963 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=unknown-8bit; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Racaille wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:21:19AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote: >> Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> writes: >>> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote: >>>> This is the *correct* behaviour. The termcap entry is supposed to >>>> reflect the capabilities of the terminal, not your personal preference= s. >>>> If you don't like it, you can override it using the TERMCAP environmen= t >>>> variable. >>> Well, something did change recently to get this behavior. >> >> New libncurses perhaps? The termcap file itself hasn't changed since >> late 2005. >> >>> And why do we have a termcap xterm entry that doesn't exhibit this >>> behavior? >> >> Because somebody modified it to reflect his personal preference: >> >> xterm|xterm-color|X11 terminal emulator:\ >> :ti@:te@:tc=3Dxterm-xfree86: > > that's dumb. just like those idiots on linux distributions > who patched the X server to replace the weave pattern they didn't > like with another one in their favorite color. No, it's not dumb. I seem to recall arguments a long time ago about this. I believe the majority don't want the ti/te behavior, and it is disabled by default for that reason. No version of Solaris that I have ever used has behaved that way. The only others have I seen with that behavior were Linux and HP/UX. --=20 DE ---559023410-959030623-1185714157=:25963--
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