Frederic Cambus <f...@statdns.com> wrote: > One can test in frame buffer consoles by doing: > > export TERM=wsvt25 > > And run either vim or colorls -G. >
Furthermore the situation is just beyond ridiculous. On the one hand your diff is talking about minimizing the differences between terminals, but your example immediately heads in the opposite direction by SELECTING for divergent configuration -- which I suspect noone except you uses. This termcap mess should never have happened. Up until about 10 years ago, pointless and accidental divergence in console emulators ended up being reflected in termcap entries *which to a large degree noone used, except for the people making the termcap entries*, and the situation is so retarded, because is ENTRENCHES differences rather than recognizing the differences shouldn't have existed. The console emulators SHOULD HAVE become more mundane and less featureful, they should have become closer to a clean blend of vt220 + xterm. But no! People focused on extremely narrow details and hid them behind TERM feature flags, and avoided focusing on the big picture of improving ease of utilization and compatibility. It is very sad.
