On Sun 16 Feb 2020 at 19:05, Aaron Sloman <[email protected]>
wrote:
Terminfo is supposed be the new mechanism.
But:
16.3 Bugs in Existing Terminfo Files (and Hardware)
Unfortunately, there are a number of bugs in the terminfo
and
termcap files. In addition, many of these terminfo files are
incomplete and do not define certain features available on
the
terminals. Sometimes you can get by without modifying the
terminfo
but in other cases you need to modify it or possibly use
another
emulation that has a good terminfo.
Does anyone know enough about the future of terminal handling to
provide a
recommendation for Poplog?
Perhaps the current situation will endure forever?
I think the situation will not change, because almost nobody uses
real
terminals nowadays. But a lot of people use terminal emulators -
there
are quite a few besides xterm. And I have seen a lot of new ones
in the
last years like e.g. termite, alacritty or kitty. All these have
terminfo entries (and termcap works as well). So even if you don't
provide a specific entry for them in pop/lib/ved/term/ they will
work
quite well if you enable termcap/terminfo like I proposed. Without
bothering you at startup anbout providing a different terminal
name.
Andreas
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ceterum censeo redmondinem esse delendam
