Re: [PATCH 3/7] Add mechanism to handle renamed option/value strings in config files.

2012-09-17 Thread Morse, Richard E.MGH
On Sep 16, 2012, at 4:46 PM, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > Hi > > I don't want to carry around backwards compatibility code, at least for > very long. So I say either: > > - No backwards compatibility. I'm not much use as a C programmer, but if you are going to remove backwards compatibility, I w

Re: Understanding terminals?

2011-11-10 Thread Morse, Richard E.MGH
Thanks! On Nov 9, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > Also terminfo(3), terminfo(5), termcap(5) man pages for ncurses > interface and termcap/terminfo files. > > > On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 06:50:55PM +0100, Magnus Woldrich wrote: >> On 2011-11-09 17:27, Morse

Re: Understanding terminals?

2011-11-10 Thread Morse, Richard E.MGH
Thanks! Ricky On Nov 9, 2011, at 4:48 PM, Jesse Molina wrote: > > Don't forget this right here for some understanding on the fundamentals: > > http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/index.php > > Also google around Stackexchange. > > > > Morse, Ri

Re: Understanding terminals?

2011-11-10 Thread Morse, Richard E.MGH
On Nov 9, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Magnus Woldrich wrote: > Oreilly have a book on termcap and terminfo [0]. Terminfo is the 'new' way of > doing things, but termcaps is still used. > > ctlseqs [1] is a good read, as well as man console_codes. > > Here's a whole bunch of documentation and notes regard

Understanding terminals?

2011-11-09 Thread Morse, Richard E.MGH
Hi! I've been trying to follow the discussions going on about tmux, but find that I don't seem to have the requisite background in terminals. I'm totally lost on the difference between termcap and terminfo. I don't understand what the various escape codes that are being discussed mean. I don't k