Bug#648271: [debian-policy] 11.8.3 "Packages providing a terminal emulator" says xterm passes -e option straight to exec

2011-12-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 01:49:05PM -0500, Filipus Klutiero wrote: But that matters for interoperability. The point of this section is to be able to issue the command: x-terminal-emulator -e vi 'some file' and know that it works. If you don't use exec, it won't. >>> I don

Bug#648271: [debian-policy] 11.8.3 "Packages providing a terminal emulator" says xterm passes -e option straight to exec

2011-12-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 12:28:22AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > There's some mail client that seems to mangle messages that contain words > inside angle brackets. Apparently Mozilla? It's doing weird things to > the whitespace when you quote. > > Filipus Klutiero writes: > > > I would simply s

Bug#651035: #651035 please decide how terminals should report Alt+letter combinations

2011-12-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
>The xterm terminfo entry does not currently advertise the smm >capability, if I am reading "infocmp xterm" output correctly. That's referring to the Debian packages for ncurses and xterm. xterm (upstream) has had smm/rmm in the terminfo description since patch #216 (2006/8/1). I've made occasio

Bug#648271: #648271 [debian-policy] 11.8.3 "Packages providing a terminal emulator" says xterm passes -e option straight to exec

2011-11-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
>However, as pointed out by Hendrik Sattler in #563352, xterm does *not* >simply pass its -e option straight to exec, at least nowadays. The >following command exemplifies: > >> $ xterm -e 'echo TEST && sleep 3' yes/no. The original issue here appears to apply to the policy's use in konsole and g