On 15/08/15 19:12, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > The issue was initially discussed here [0] and then followed up here [1] > where Pádraig mentioned that he needed to know why termite requires a > separate TERM. I would like to follow this up by linking this [2] discussion. > > Pádraig, if you're reading this but don't want to read the whole Talk:Termite > page, the gist is provided by thestinger (primary termite developer): "The > terminfo for VTE and xterm is fairly different. For example, Termite supports > italic text and it won't work if TERM is set to xterm. Even the backspace key > won't work properly anymore for sane applications relying on terminfo rather > than hardcoding dozens of escape sequences." > > I hope you can see the need for accepting this small patch as it makes the > lives a bit easier for those of us using termite. > > Sven > > [0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2015-01/msg00059.html > [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2015-05/msg00063.html > [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:Termite
Applied. http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=a960c31 thanks, Pádraig.
