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- #Posted-Date: Fri, 9 Mar 90 18:34:29 EST
- #Date: Fri, 9 Mar 90 18:34:29 EST
- #From: "Eirik Fuller" <wonton.tn.cornell.edu!eirik@ucsbcsl.UUCP>
- #To: bfox@ai.mit.edu (Brian Fox)
- #Subject: Patch to bash 1.05 for SunView
- #
- #I think this works:
- #
- Mu|sun-cmd:am:bs:km:pt:li#34:co#80:cl=^L:ce=\E[K:cd=\E[J:rs=\E[s:
- #
- #Another alternative is to send the ti string at startup time (and, I
- #guess, the te string at exit time); that is how vi works in a cmdtool.
- #The best reason to not do this is that this also disables scrolling
- #which, as I understand it, is why anyone would use cmdtool in the
- #first place. Sending the ti string at startup time would do strange
- #things on other systems too; in xterm it would use the alternate
- #screen.
- #
- #The problem with cmdtool, in case that is less than obvious, is that
- #almost none of the capabilities advertised in /etc/termcap are enabled
- #while scrolling is enabled. It has other problems too, like being
- #part of an outdated proprietary windowing system, but there's probably
- #no need to dwell on that. In a sense, though, the sun-cmd termcap
- #entry doesn't lie about the capabilities; I think the termcap man page
- #does warn about some terminals having cursor motion capabilities only
- #in the "ti/te window".
- #
- #A general solution to this problem would require a termcap capability
- #which somehow tells which features are available outside of the ti/te
- #window. There is no such capability in termcap now, of course.
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