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Date:      Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:12:58 -0400
From:      Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why doesn't cons25 have cs in termcap info?
Message-ID:  <20080621171258.GA27863@saltmine.radix.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080621152338.GA5394@saltmine.radix.net>
References:  <1214022191.00087286.1214008802@10.7.7.3> <20080621152338.GA5394@saltmine.radix.net>

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On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 11:23:38AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:32:58PM -0400, Kitche wrote:
> > Since some ports actually need cs(change_scroll_region) to run for exam=
ple
> > tmux is one. I believe tmux does not change the term correctly which co=
uld
> > be the issue as well. But according to the author the term needs cs to
> > even run.
> >=20
> > I m just wondering why cons25 is missing this from it's termcap, since
> > I've been working on adding it to cons25 so that some ports will work
> > correctly.
>=20
> It might be a recent change - I've made a to-do item to investigate it.
> afaik, it's not supported in "older" versions of FreeBSD.
>=20
> At the moment for instance, I'm reading the 6.0 source for
>=20
> 	/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/vidconsole.c

ditto for=20

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/syscons/scterm-sc.c

and

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/vidconsole.c

> The corresponding screen(4) manpage doesn't mention it.
>=20
> (pcvt supports it, but that's a different emulator from cons25).

It sounds as if tmux needs some fixes - cons25 isn't the only terminal
lacking scroll-regions.

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Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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