This is regarding the x-terminal-emulator thread.
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you forgot the -fn option (all emulators should support -rv as well).
> Re: x-terminal-emulator
> Author: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2000/10/30
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>On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:08:32PM -0800, Bradley Bell wrote:
>> isn't xterm the 'de facto' standard? it would seem to me that any options
>> xterm understands ought to be supported by x-terminal-emulator. If
>> a certain terminal emulater is not xterm compatible, it would be trivial =
>to
>> provide an 'xterm compatibility wrapper', and have x-terminal-emulator po=
>int
>> to that.=20
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>Nononono. I love xterm to death, but requiring support for its many, many
>options is the death of a thousand cuts. Most other terminal emulators
>don't fool with the Tektronix 4014 emulation, for instance. Try "man
>xterm" sometime and feel your head reel as the bajillions of options scroll
>by.
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>I think requiring a *small* compatibility subset is the way to go. There's
>not all that many things a terminal emulator needs to be able to
>configurably from the command line to satisfy the requirements of a program
>(as opposed to a user) that calls it:
>
>1) accept a geometry specification
>2) accept a title
>3) exec a specified command
>
>Maybe, *maybe* we should require -ls (login shell) support, but even that
>is pushing it, I think.
>
>As much as I love xterm, I don't think it's fair to require that every
>other X terminal emulator be just like it.
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