Re: misc/10127 (port i386 /etc/ttys says vt220 instead of wsvt25)

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Subject: Re: misc/10127 (port i386 /etc/ttys says vt220 instead of wsvt25)
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 15:25:38 -0700 (PDT)

 >...
 >"Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc." <woods%planix.ca@localhost> writes:
 >>  Matching xterm might be an even better target and a better solution to  
 >>  the problem, even though it too goes through a whole lot of hoops for  
 >>  bug-to-bug compatibility with ancient technology.
 >
 >Emulating a color xterm would, of course, be ideal, since then the
 >"log in to remote machine" problem etc. all go away and you get all
 >the features you want on the local box. If you can make that happen...
 >
 >Perry
 >
        Please no.  Despite my name sometimes being attached to it (someone
 else actually deserves all of the credit/blame), color xterm is an awful
 hack - a strange mix of VTxx/ANSI and MS/IBM escape sequences (and, unless
 they've been fixed, there were some conflicts between the command sets).
 
 BTW.  The "original" xterm emulated a VT102, VT52 or Tek - all probably much
 worse choices than either VT100 or VT220 for portability.  (I think I added
 some of the missing VT100 escape sequences in X11R5, but at least a few were
 reverted/deleted in X11R6 or later in XFree86.)
 
        Paul Shupak