after rolling up my sleeves and getting a termcap working (so it seems) i
still can't figure the nuances between:
smacs rmacs (terminfo)
as ae (termcap)
^N ^O form 1 (older?)
^[(0 ^[(B form 2 (newer?)
on both mrxvt and xterm either form of this sequence puts the display into
(out of) alternate character mode, but i've got a weird edge case that
causes problems.... i think the cause of the problem is that (on both
xterm and mrxvt) if i use one form to get into the alternate character set
i have to use the same form to get out... i can't mix and match forms to
enter (and exit) alternate character mode.
i'm not sure if that's a bug or if it's that way for historical reasons,
but in the particular case i've got it's rather annoying.
in both xterm and mrxvt i can't find any documentation to support the 2nd
form, except that a bunch of termcap/terminfo files use it and the
inconvenient fact that it works. the first form seems to be well
documented and it works just as well.
if anyone can point me in the right direction about figuring that out....?
then i've got to figure out why a linux box that i've got a shell on
reports this as the setaf/AF string in 256 color mode (xterm-256color):
^[[%?%p1%{8}%<%t3%p1%d%e%p1%{16}%<%t9%p1%{8}%-%d%e38;5;%p1%d%;m
wtf?!?!?
it would seem like a typo in the termcap, except that setab/AB reports
this:
^[[%?%p1%{8}%<%t4%p1%d%e%p1%{16}%<%t10%p1%{8}%-%d%e48;5;%p1%d%;m
in both cases it looks like the correct string is at the end.
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