Re: rxvt vs xterm keybindings

[Jan D.]

>     Well, just because it is easy does not make it the right thing to
>     do.  I am not an xterm developer, but I would question why xterm
>     would have to take one specific environment variable it to  
> account,
>     invented by another terminal emulator, to solve a potential  
> problem
>     in Emacs.
>
> The problem can affect any program that looks at COLORTYPE.
> It is not specific to Emacs.  This change would make xterm work  
> correctly
> with rxvt.  Can you think of another way to do that?

IMHO, if rxvt has capabilities not in xterm, it should not set TERM  
to xterm in the first place.  If you set TERM to xterm you should not  
expect programs to jump through hops trying to figure out if it  
really is an xterm or rather something else.  I would just say that  
anybody expecting to get rxvt.el loaded
when TERM is set to xterm has a misconfigured system and leave it at  
that.  But that is just IMHO.

    Jan D.