Re: terminfo 256 colors scheme patch

[Alain Bench]

 On Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 20:20:13 -0400, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:

> the reason I removed those [setb/setf] from xterm was to discourage
> people from using them (motivated by an application that was choosing
> those strings when present in preference to setaf/setab).

    OK, amended patch #2 attached: xterm+256color block now removes
setb/setf. I was unable to locate on Google the report by
Emanuele Giaquinta that triggered xterm #209 patch, so I don't know what
the issues in this app were (just color inversions?). And so:

 - Is it sure not a single app uses exclusively set[bf]?

 - Would it make sense to remove set[bf] from all 8/16 colors entries
already having seta[bf]?


> On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 02:13:30PM +0200, Alain Bench wrote:
>> Why does the "screen" entry have kcbt=\E[Z ?
> some version of screen was filtering out strings that weren't in the
> terminal description.

    I see: Thanks. And as most terminals having a <BackTab> key send
this very sequence, most Screen users can make use of it without effort.
Other terminals may need a specific screen.$TERM entry with their own
kcbt, but they are a minority.


Bye!    Alain.
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