Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 15:04:36 -0500 From: "Michael B. Eichorn" <ike@michaeleichorn.com> To: Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TERM=xterm lacking smcup and rmcup (alternate screen) Message-ID: <1452110676.9558.12.camel@michaeleichorn.com> In-Reply-To: <CAKc7PVAELPA3jUR6TfSZjc20ViOCsDHhxAeknN9Fb-GXfWphyw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAKc7PVAELPA3jUR6TfSZjc20ViOCsDHhxAeknN9Fb-GXfWphyw@mail.gmail.com>
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--=-8XcWTewhRE9qax85kFoj Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 19:38 +0100, Sebastian Gniazdowski wrote: > Hello > I want to criticize an approach taken in FreeBSD regarding the > alternate screen. It's not available in newcons. One person wrote > that's because Tekken doesn't have such feature, and newcons > implements Tekken. >=20 > That's maybe fine. However, newcons doesn't have it's own termcap. It > uses TERM=3Dxterm, which normally has rmcup and smcup. Some smart > person > thus decided to remove those codes from TERM=3Dxterm. You see what this > leads to? No alternate screen on X11. >=20 > Why doesn't newcon create it's own termcap entry? Why nobody cares > about trashed xterm screens when fullscreen applications are exiting. > In my software I've wrote a special function to handle FreeBSD > nuance: >=20 > https://github.com/psprint/zsh-cmd-architect/blob/master/zca#L65-L81 >=20 > But this should be fixed, really. Newcons could ignore rmcup and > smcup. Why remove them from TERM=3Dxterm, let newcons just ignore it. > FreeBSD could then still use TERM=3Dxterm for its virtual terminal. >=20 > Best regards, > Sebastian Gniazdowski Hi, Technical discussions like this are somewhat off-topic for this list. FreeBSD-questions is for 'user questions' and as such is primarily populated by users not developers. You probably want freebsd-hackers which is for 'Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD'. 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