On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 07:39:31 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Dickey wrote: > > There is no possibility that I will include a patch which implies > that PuTTY is xterm, but that inevitably leads to more bug reports. >
Nor should you. I agree. But apparently you did not review my patch carefully enough. The patch itself does not even mention PuTTY. The only mention of PuTTY is in this bug report. But the patch itself does not mention PuTTY. > > The existing "putty" entry already does what is asked. > > See for example > > http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-putty No, it doesn't. I am aware of the existence of the "putty" terminal type definition in ncurses, but I don't use it because it is way out of date. (That's one problem with a terminal implemented in software. The terminal's capabilities can change over time, whereas a hardware terminal generally doesn't change its behavior over time.) For a more complete discussion of this topic, please see my PuTTY web page at http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/putty.htm#ConnectionD If there are factual errors on this page, please let me know; and I will correct them. > > dircolors is hardcoded, ignores terminal database (and some of > its definitions as I recall, do not correspond to the terminal > database). Yes, I'm painfully aware of that. Anyway, please reconsider. Respectfully yours, -- .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
