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Re: [PATCH] preparing libcurses for terminfo



On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 09:49:34PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 05:39:38PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > 
> > While you're at it, perhaps you should remove this comment (adjacent
> > to your changes), since it's inaccurate (it's not a "bug" in xterm,
> > but a design choice - the other choices merely are worse ;-):
> > 
> >     /*
> >      * Work round an xterm bug where inserting lines causes all the
> >      * inserted lines to be covered with the background colour we
> >      * set on the first line (even if we unset it for subsequent
> >      * lines).
> >      */
> 
> If a real vt100 doesn't do it, it's a bug in xterm... though perhaps not
> in how it interacts with curses.

A "real vt100" doesn't do color.
A "real vt100" doesn't know about mice.
A "real vt100" doesn't generate SIGWINCH.

Gotta remove all of those buggy features.

However, we're discussing

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libcurses/refresh.c.diff?r1=1.21&r2=1.22&only_with_tag=MAIN

...back to our regularly scheduled program....

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
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