On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 09:18:53 -0300, Crystal Kolipe wrote: > It's useful, because these sequences correspond to the terminfo > capabilities rin, indn, vpa, hpa, and cbt as defined in the xterm > terminfo entry. With these sequences implemented, it becomes > slightly more practical to set TERM=xterm when connecting to remote > systems that don't have a comprehensive terminfo database.
Why is is desirable to set specifically TERM=xterm instead of, say, vt220, or whichever vt entry describes wscons the closest? For multi-line scroll the patch just calls scrollup/scrolldown, but that's not what the single-line scroll commands do (see wsemul_vt100.c) I'm actually not entirely convinced that it's even correct to describe vt220 as having sf/ind scrolling capabilities, b/c the vt220 scrolling sequences take the scrolling region into account and the terminfo capabilities for scrolling are defined to operate on the whole screen as far as I can tell. So in its current form I don't think this patch is suitable and I'm not convinced it's needed at all. -uwe
