On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Yakov Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Marc Haisenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> >> As you can see, the UNIX way of handling output is severely broken and >> always >> has been because there's just no way that the terminal can tell the system >> and/or application what it CAN support. > > > Wrong. > Vt* terminals, xterm, konsole, uterm all have ESC Z query. > Vim makes use of ESC Z query. But there's more to it. > > konsole and uterm have more query sequences. You can query colors > and current codepage.But Vim does not implement terminal-specific quering > currently. > > Maybe somebody can make plugin or patch to define and use terminal-specific > queries, especially for konsole and uterm. > > If vim had support for terminal-specific queries (even if by vimscript), > vim would > automatically run better in those terminals. > > It is pity that vim does not make use of terminal-specific queries. That > would > give terminal developers incentive to standardize and expand, queries. > > Yakov > > [1] And even switch codepages. Thst makes it possible to > automatically synchronize vim's encoding and terminals > codepage. Or at least detect and report inconsistency to the user. > Hello Bram, Would you add to the Wishlist support for open-ended terminal-specific quering (konsole, uterm, probably others) for quering terminal's colors and codepage for exampple, and ability to configure into vim new query strings and response processing logic ? Yakov --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
