Subject: Re: A small patch
To: Reinoud Zandijk <zandijk@cs.utwente.nl>
From: Neil A. Carson <neil@causality.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 08/19/1999 18:59:07
Reinoud Zandijk wrote:

> so I noticed :-((, but with vt220, my Pine/vi etc work file and most
> importantly... my cursorkeys work! The only stuff that goes wrong is some
> ncurses-4 stuff. That'll mess things up... try f.e. ``sniffit -i''... How
> is `wscons' doing? Is it still under development? I hear so little about
> it. Would like to help if possible? I can program `C' and assembler quite
> well, allthough I have the need for feedback-debugging... My
> Sun-SLC/NetBSD takes that job :-)

Mark already has some code that him and I wrote for 'glueing' a wscons
rcons onto a flat mainbus framebuffer. The problem we see with it is
that the rcons in wscons is appaulingly slow, which is why changeover
has not yet happened. I heard there was rumor of a faster rcons
appearing, but I don't know whether or not this actually happened.

I normally use hjkl for moving around in vi, anyway. If you need real
terminal emulation, why not just use xterm?

Given vt100 works, but in a number of different ways vt220 doesn't, I
would personally be against a change to alter this behaviour.

The time should be spent trying to turn rcons into something that
doesn't run like a dog. That's, unfortunately, time that I don't have.

Does anyone here know if the rcons replacement actually made it?

	Neil