Re: Bug#9813: rxvt 2.20-4 : Bad setting of TERM environ variable

1997-05-22 Thread Mark Eichin
(1) xterm-color has *not* been in X for years, though it was a collection of patches for X11R5 and X11R6 -- it was not in XFree 3.1.2, it was only added to XFree 3.2, probably via X11R6.1 but I'd have to check -- it's possibly *only* in XFree. This would mean not only that xterm-color isn't *widel

Re: Bug#9813: rxvt 2.20-4 : Bad setting of TERM environ variable

1997-05-22 Thread Brian Mays
> "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> X11 mouse support is something that is important to me John> personally. Home and end keys aren't that important since John> most apps don't handle them correctly anyway. Well, since rxvt's special features are important

Re: Bug#9813: rxvt 2.20-4 : Bad setting of TERM environ variable

1997-05-21 Thread John Goerzen
Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The rxvt authors claim that programs such as JED, slrn, Midnight > Commander check this variable. I don't know since I don't use any of > these applications. These are all programs that don't use the standard ncurses interface, I believe. As such, they a

Re: Bug#9813: rxvt 2.20-4 : Bad setting of TERM environ variable

1997-05-20 Thread Brian Mays
> "Brian" == Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> rxvt (and rxvt-xpm) always exports the variable "COLORTERM" Brian> so that programs can check for color support. > "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Unfortunately, I know of no programs that ma

Re: Bug#9813: rxvt 2.20-4 : Bad setting of TERM environ variable

1997-05-16 Thread Mark Baker
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bart Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, I'd hope that if xterm now does color as standard, that fact is > reflected in its terminfo entry. No, because if you do that, programs like slrn will try to use colour, which means they are almost impossib

Re: Bug#9813: rxvt 2.20-4 : Bad setting of TERM environ variable

1997-05-16 Thread Bart Schuller
On May 16, J.H.M.Dassen wrote > On May 15, John Goerzen wrote > > Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > rxvt (and rxvt-xpm) always exports the variable "COLORTERM" so that > > > programs can check for color support. As a side note, when XPM support > > > has been > > > > Unfortunately, I

Re: Bug#9813: rxvt 2.20-4 : Bad setting of TERM environ variable

1997-05-16 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On May 15, John Goerzen wrote > Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > rxvt (and rxvt-xpm) always exports the variable "COLORTERM" so that > > programs can check for color support. As a side note, when XPM support > > has been > > Unfortunately, I know of no programs that make use of this va

Re: Bug#9813: rxvt 2.20-4 : Bad setting of TERM environ variable

1997-05-16 Thread John Goerzen
Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > rxvt (and rxvt-xpm) always exports the variable "COLORTERM" so that programs > can check for color support. As a side note, when XPM support has been Unfortunately, I know of no programs that make use of this variable. In fact, I believe that ncurses do

Re: Bug#9813: rxvt 2.20-4 : Bad setting of TERM environ variable

1997-05-15 Thread Brian Mays
>From the original bug report by John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > rxvt-xpm, at least, is setting TERM to be xterm. It should be set to > "rxvt". Debian's termcap/terminfo (as well as that of every other Linux and > many other modern OSs as well) has an rxvt entry, and it should be used in > t