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Updated terminfo and termcap definitions [Was: Re: 1.7.1 release date? (termcap)]
- From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com, Mailing List: CygWin-Apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:33:41 -0500
- Subject: Updated terminfo and termcap definitions [Was: Re: 1.7.1 release date? (termcap)]
- Reply-to: Mailing List: CygWin-Apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
[Moving to cygwin-apps; please reply there]
This is a heads-up concerning changes to terminfo/termcap defintions. As
discussed on cygwin-developers, here's a stab at providing /etc/termcap
via terminfo:
http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/terminfo-5.7_20091114-10.dist
terminfo/setup.hint
terminfo/terminfo-5.7_20091114-10-src.tar.bz2
terminfo/terminfo-5.7_20091114-10.tar.bz2
terminfo/terminfo-extra/setup.hint
terminfo/terminfo-extra/terminfo-extra-5.7_20091114-10.tar.bz2
terminfo/termcap/setup.hint
terminfo/termcap/termcap-5.7_20091114-10.tar.bz2
Where the "new" termcap package contains only /etc/termcap, and its
setup.hint is:
category: Utils
requires:
external-source: terminfo
sdesc: "Old-style database for terminal handling"
ldesc: "This database provides the terminal descriptions necessary
for proper operation of obsolete programs that use termcap"
BTW, this release contains Andy's LONG-pending patch so that the
database reports that cygwin, cygwinDBG, screen, *and xterm* all use ^?
(\177) for backspace, rather than ^H.
Re: emacs -nw keypad, tpu-edt.el, and C-h
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00819.html
Suggestion for terminal package maintainers
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2009-06/msg00003.html
Backspace keycode patches for xterm and terminfo
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2009-10/msg00041.html
This is true for screen and cygwin-1.7 console, but not YET true for
xterm (patch still pending, I think). So, my release announcement will
include this blurb:
.....
xterm has not yet been updated to use ^?; you should modify
/etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm
and add the following two lines, until it is updated:
*backarrowKeyIsErase: true
*ptyInitialErase: true
.....
If there are no objections after a few days, I'll upload and rearrange
the affected release-2 directories as appropriate.
--
Chuck