Hi

I haven't forgotten about this just been busy and not managed to
convince myself if I like custom tmux terminfo entries... I'll decide
sometime soon :_).


On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:14:12PM +0000, Sean Estabrooks wrote:
> 
> Hi Nicholas,
> 
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Thanks for your work on this.
> 
> Was a nice diversion and the tmux source code is quite a pleasure
> to read.
> 
> >
> > Although, hmmmm. I'm really not wild about custom tmux escape sequences,
> > although they have obvious advantages. I'll have to think about it. We
> > need a better way to express this kind of stuff since real terminfo
> > flags are so patchy.
> 
> One nice effect of this design is that the decisions are all made
> at init time rather than at each use.  We don't have to decide each
> time which codes to send, we just send whatever has been configured.
> 
> I think internally the design is a good one, and it leverages the
> existing infrastructure within the code.  Perhaps exposing that
> information to the users is a mistake and a different configuration
> option should be implemented.
> 
> > I think that putting it into tty_update_mode means we may change the
> > cursor where it is unnecessary such as tty_draw_line, but I'm not sure
> > we need to care about this, anyone trying to do this on a vt100 or at
> > 9600 baud really doesn't get to complain.
> 
> Note that the sequences are only sent when the cursor colour is changed.
> You can set the sequences to something visible (like XXX) and see that
> they're hardly ever sent.
> 
> >
> > I'm not sure I'll have time to have another look at this until I get
> > back from Japan in two weeks.
> 
> No worries, enjoy your trip.  If you decide you want the problem solved
> another way let me know and i'll give it a go if i have the cycles to
> spare.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sean
> 
>                                         

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