Re: old/unupdated xterm entries in termcap db

2009-12-10 Thread Ed Schouten
Hello Alexander, others, * Alexander Leidinger alexan...@leidinger.net wrote: The practical attitude should be coordinated with ed@ (CCed), as he switched the console in 9-current to be an xterm, and AFAIR it does not support as much colors as the real xterm. Maybe there is a reason to not

Re: old/unupdated xterm entries in termcap db

2009-12-10 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:42:22 +0100 Ed Schouten e...@80386.nl wrote: But if someone is interested in updating the entries in the termcap file to something newer (but no 256 colors), please do! Patches welcome! I will even MFC it! Our current entry for xterm isn't entirely compatible with

Re: old/unupdated xterm entries in termcap db

2009-12-10 Thread Ed Schouten
* Gary Jennejohn gary.jennej...@freenet.de wrote: IIRC there was a patch in the original post which may be a good starting point. I just tried the patch, but when I run `make' in share/termcap, I get the following: | gzip -cn termcap.5 termcap.5.gz | TERM=dumb TERMCAP=dumb: ex -

Re: old/unupdated xterm entries in termcap db

2009-12-10 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Gary Jennejohn gary.jennej...@freenet.de (from Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:32:46 +0100): On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:29:21 +0100 Dag-Erling Sm__rgrav d...@des.no wrote: Gary Jennejohn gary.jennej...@freenet.de writes: Leonidas Tsampros ltsamp...@upnet.gr writes: Why aren't these entries

Re: old/unupdated xterm entries in termcap db

2009-12-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:42:22 +0100, Ed Schouten e...@80386.nl wrote: Hello Alexander, others, * Alexander Leidinger alexan...@leidinger.net wrote: The practical attitude should be coordinated with ed@ (CCed), as he switched the console in 9-current to be an xterm, and AFAIR it does not

Re: old/unupdated xterm entries in termcap db

2009-12-09 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:12:04 +0200 Leonidas Tsampros ltsamp...@upnet.gr wrote: Why aren't these entries updated in order to match the ones that ship with xterm? Am I missing something? Probably because xterm is under ports and termcap under src and it would not be easy to track changes in

Re: old/unupdated xterm entries in termcap db

2009-12-09 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Gary Jennejohn gary.jennej...@freenet.de writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no writes: That's not an issue - termcaps don't change all that often. We should just import the new definitions. That's a practical attitude, but it begs the question why it hasn't happened in the past. Because

old/unupdated xterm entries in termcap db

2009-12-08 Thread Leonidas Tsampros
Hello, Recently, I tried to enable/configure 256 color support under xterm (and/or other terminal emulators). The application for which I wanted 256 color support is emacs (although this does not matter). Normally, all I'd have to do to get this done is: export TERM=xterm-256color Of