On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <3FC02538.7040903_at_mindspring.com> > Richard Coleman <richardcoleman_at_mindspring.com> writes: > : 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? nvi/cl/cl_bsd.c has a possibly complete enough list in its terminfo translation table. > : Is the extra maintenance worth it to save a few hundred bytes? Probably not, if this is mainly for use by rescue on larger (multi-megabyte) disks. I used an 8K termcap on 1200MB floppy rescue disks many years ago, > Generating them automatically can be kind of difficult. termcap > doesn't change that often. As someone pointed out, ed is sufficient. It's all we had on the root partition. I remember how to use it mainly from using it there. BruceReceived on Sat Nov 22 2003 - 21:06:30 UTC
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