M. Warner Losh wrote: > : I agree. termcap.small is amazingly uncurrent. However, perhaps some > : merging and reducing is in order. Why is a full cons25 or vt2xx needed? > : vi only needs a few capabilities. I think we mostly use copies of large > : termcap entries because copying the whole things is easier. > > You have a good point. My termcap was done so that we could run a > number of applications... > > Grepping seems unsatisfying to find out which keys are used. Do you > have a list? > > Warner Is the extra maintenance worth it to save a few hundred bytes? It might even make sense to dynamically generate termcap.tiny at build time by pulling out the entries in /etc/termcap for a selected list of terminal types. Then, no extra maintenance would be needed. Richard Coleman richardcoleman_at_mindspring.comReceived on Sat Nov 22 2003 - 18:10:49 UTC
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