On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Racaille wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:21:19AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >> Daniel Eischen <deischen_at_freebsd.org> writes: >>> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >>>> This is the *correct* behaviour. The termcap entry is supposed to >>>> reflect the capabilities of the terminal, not your personal preferences. >>>> If you don't like it, you can override it using the TERMCAP environment >>>> variable. >>> Well, something did change recently to get this behavior. >> >> New libncurses perhaps? The termcap file itself hasn't changed since >> late 2005. >> >>> And why do we have a termcap xterm entry that doesn't exhibit this >>> behavior? >> >> Because somebody modified it to reflect his personal preference: >> >> xterm|xterm-color|X11 terminal emulator:\ >> :ti_at_:te_at_:tc=xterm-xfree86: > > that's dumb. just like those idiots on linux distributions > who patched the X server to replace the weave pattern they didn't > like with another one in their favorite color. No, it's not dumb. I seem to recall arguments a long time ago about this. I believe the majority don't want the ti/te behavior, and it is disabled by default for that reason. No version of Solaris that I have ever used has behaved that way. The only others have I seen with that behavior were Linux and HP/UX. -- DEReceived on Sun Jul 29 2007 - 11:02:39 UTC
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