On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:57:28 -0400 Olivier Crete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | As a gnome-terminal user, I've never had problems with anything that | tried to use advanced xterm crap... probably because no uses them. If | you want X stuff, just use a real X application (like gvim...). I'm | strictly opposed to crippling my terminal use in the most common cases | (such a logging into a non-Gentoo system) for one or two legacy | applications.
Ok, to put this into perspective: the next major release of vim will almost certainly not work on anything that calls itself an xterm unless it really is an xterm. You will likely encounter a hard locked terminal that you can't unlock. The latest ncurses release will also break various things (irssi comes to mind) on Gnome Terminal. Crippling xterm is no longer considered a suitable workaround. | In the era of massive sshing, we have to forget terminfo and new | terminal types. We should understand xterm to mean a basic x terminal | and not the application from X.org. Uh, no, a basic x terminal would be TERM=vt100. If an application claims TERM=xterm, it is expected to support full xterm capabilities. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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