On 6/10/05, Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As it seems unlikely for terminfo to be changed anytime soon (and > > broken installations would remain for a long time anyway), it seems > > that Emacs just needs to special-case the terminal name "linux" to > > reflect that underlining isn't supported there. > > Yuck! I'd prefer we invest our energy in talking the Linux > maintainers into changing their terminfo entries. Hardcoding terminal > names is ugly and would be a maintenance mess if that terminal expands > its capabilities in the future.
Hey I don't like it either, but relying terminfo to be correct seems overly optimistic -- even if we can quickly get the terminfo maintainers to make a change, it will take a long time to propagate to all installations (people often update major apps like Emacs while background stuff like terminfo languishes). Probably we should do both, regarding the name check as a short-term workaround. > We always insisted in behaving as the terminfo entry says. The only > places where we currently look at the terminal's name is when there's > no known way if figuring out something, like with the (unknown) > default background color of the terminal. If the terminfo entry is most likely wrong, and we know it, then it doesn't make sense to follow it. -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
