bug#13471: 24.3.50; S-up does not work in xterm: <select> is undefined

[dickey]

On Thursday, January 17, 2013 3:53:15 AM UTC-5, Sven Joachim wrote:
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> === modified file 'src/term.c'
> --- src/term.c        2013-01-11 02:40:58 +0000
> +++ src/term.c        2013-01-17 08:49:20 +0000
> @@ -1415,7 +1415,6 @@ term_get_fkeys_1 (void)
>        CONDITIONAL_REASSIGN ("F1", "k<", "f11");
>        CONDITIONAL_REASSIGN ("F2", "k>", "f12");
>        CONDITIONAL_REASSIGN ("%1", "kq", "help");
> -      CONDITIONAL_REASSIGN ("*6", "kU", "select");
> 
>  #undef CONDITIONAL_REASSIGN
> 
>    }

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      /* IBM has their own non-standard dialect of terminfo.
         If the standard name isn't found, try the IBM name.  */

which is interesting: the code fragment is dealing with termcap
names (the first parameter is conventional termcap names, the
second is not).  It is not dealing with terminfo (there is a
difference...).  AIX has been terminfo-only for a long time
(I don't have access to a machine old enough to provide an
example of termcap in use - that would have to be from the
early 1990s.

I would suggest researching the history of this fragment,
and probably discarding the entire chunk as obsolete,
e.g., if it referred to AIX 3 or 4.