On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 12:58:34PM +0100, Julian Coleman wrote: > Hi, > > > When I set TERM to xterm-old, everything seems to be okay. Using > > xterm-r5, the problem with inverted text is no longer present, but > > another problem remains, I forgot to mention: When using the history > > function of the shell, the cursor is not moved to the beginning of the > > line, i.e. the command line grows longer and longer with entries from > > the history. > > A summary here would be that different xterm implementations are incompatible. > Hence, there are different xterm-* entries in both termcap and terminfo. Our > previous termcap "xterm" entry was a mixture of older and newer entries, but > lost some features of both. I'm not sure that it's sensible to restore it > for our terminfo "xterm" entry though. so far I've not seen any details cited which require a change to the terminfo database (just fixes to the configuration which uses it). -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey%invisible-island.net@localhost> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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