debian/changelog | 5 ++-
debian/local/xterm.faq.html | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
New commits:
commit 825897efe9f035b19b67449d954cac57647c0316
Author: Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de>
Date: Sat Dec 17 14:03:13 2016 +0100
Upload to unstable
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index fd56a32..236f53e 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-xterm (327-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+xterm (327-2) unstable; urgency=medium
* Bump debhelper compatibility level to 10.
- Add autoconf-dickey to Build-Depends and an override for
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ xterm (327-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
- Drop quilt from Build-Depends and delete debian/README.source.
* Update copy of XTerm FAQ to revision 1.332 (dated 2016/10/23).
- -- Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> Sat, 12 Nov 2016 19:19:33 +0100
+ -- Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> Sat, 17 Dec 2016 14:02:49 +0100
xterm (327-1) unstable; urgency=medium
commit a26c7e2f29ffbf96d47f68f0435d79553e636349
Author: Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de>
Date: Sat Dec 17 13:46:01 2016 +0100
Update copy of XTerm FAQ to revision 1.332 (dated 2016/10/23)
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index ae26e2e..fd56a32 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ xterm (327-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
dh_autoreconf to debian/rules.
* Switch to format 3.0 (quilt).
- Drop quilt from Build-Depends and delete debian/README.source.
+ * Update copy of XTerm FAQ to revision 1.332 (dated 2016/10/23).
-- Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> Sat, 12 Nov 2016 19:19:33 +0100
diff --git a/debian/local/xterm.faq.html b/debian/local/xterm.faq.html
index 8df4856..da164d1 100644
--- a/debian/local/xterm.faq.html
+++ b/debian/local/xterm.faq.html
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
* ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF *
* OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. *
*****************************************************************************
- $XTermId: xterm.faq.html,v 1.329 2016/09/16 09:19:01 tom Exp $
+ $XTermId: xterm.faq.html,v 1.332 2016/10/23 13:57:26 tom Exp $
-->
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
@@ -523,10 +523,12 @@
the same as xterm. For example,</p>
<ul>
- <li>PuTTY does this. But its wrapping behavior is incompatible
- with xterm (and any vt100 emulator). You can see this in the
- first menu entry for <a href=
- "/vttest/vttest.html">vttest</a>.</li>
+ <li>PuTTY does this (see its FAQ <a href=
+ "http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#faq-term";>
+ <em>A.5.1 What terminal type does PuTTY use?</em></a>). But its
+ wrapping behavior is incompatible with xterm (and any vt100
+ emulator). You can see this in the first menu entry for
+ <a href="/vttest/vttest.html">vttest</a>.</li>
<li>VTE does this. But consider the list of problems with
<a href=
@@ -536,12 +538,14 @@
GNOME Terminal</a>.</li>
<li>Konsole does this as well—intentionally as shown in
- <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145977";>KDE
- #145977</a>. The reasoning expressed there is that Konsole
- "should" match xterm. Incidentally, one of the comments (about
- xterm's support for mouse) cited as proof a <a href=
- "http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1136";>page about Gpm</a>
- from Linux Journal which was more than 12 years old.</li>
+ <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145977";><em>KDE
+ #145977 – Konsole has a terminfo entry of its own; please
+ change default $TERM</em></a>. The reasoning expressed there is
+ that Konsole "should" match xterm. Incidentally, one of the
+ comments (about xterm's support for mouse) cited as proof a
+ <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1136";>page about
+ Gpm</a> from Linux Journal which was more than 12 years
+ old.</li>
</ul>
<p>Each of the programs noted here which are well-established and
@@ -553,21 +557,30 @@
programs. These include</p>
<ul>
- <li>Eterm</li>
+ <li><a href=
+ "/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-_Eterm">Eterm</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-gnome">gnome</a>
+ (obsolete)</li>
- <li>gnome (obsolete)</li>
+ <li><a href=
+ "/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-konsole">konsole</a></li>
- <li>konsole</li>
+ <li><a href=
+ "/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-mlterm">mlterm</a></li>
- <li>mlterm</li>
+ <li><a href=
+ "/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-mrxvt">mrxvt</a></li>
- <li>mrxvt</li>
+ <li><a href=
+ "/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-putty">putty</a></li>
- <li>putty</li>
+ <li><a href="/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-rxvt">rxvt</a></li>
- <li>rxvt</li>
+ <li><a href="/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-st">st</a></li>
- <li>vte (preferred)</li>
+ <li><a href="/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-vte">vte</a>
+ (preferred)</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="compare_versions-id"><a name="compare_versions" id=
@@ -3859,8 +3872,9 @@ ESC O F
"xterm_terminfo">What $TERM should I use?</a></h4>
<p><strong>XTerm</strong> provides in its sources both <a href=
- "terminfo.html">terminfo</a> and termcap files. They are designed
- to allow scripting to override the most common choices, e.g., the
+ "terminfo.html">terminfo</a> and <a href=
+ "termcap.html">termcap</a> files. They are designed to allow
+ scripting to override the most common choices, e.g., the
backspace key.</p>
<p>The <code>xterm-color</code> value for $TERM is a bad choice
@@ -6592,9 +6606,9 @@ larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (132.206.1.1) in
<p>The toolkit-style configurability glibly referenced is the
ability to redefine keys on the keyboard without recompiling the
- program, i.e., the <a href=
- "xterm.faq.html#how2_fkeys">translations</a> resource. It also is
- the way mouse events and other actions are passed to xterm.</p>
+ program, i.e., the <a href="#how2_fkeys">translations</a>
+ resource. It also is the way mouse events and other actions are
+ passed to xterm.</p>
<p>The toolkit-style configurability accounts for about 300kb,
which does add up if you happen to be running 50 xterm processes
@@ -7558,7 +7572,8 @@ tbl ctlseqs.ms | groff -ms >ctlseqs.ps
<em><code>Control</code></em>) in <a href=
"/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_51">patch #51</a>
(1997/9/15) as the <a href=
- "how2_fkeys"><code>sunKeyboard</code></a> resource.<br>
+ "#how2_fkeys"><code>sunKeyboard</code></a>
+ resource.<br>
I did this to leave <em><code>Shift</code></em> for the
VT220 UDK (user-defined keys).</li>
