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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev]  Re: Fixing the TERM mess
From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
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On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 01:56 +0200, Sven K=C3=B6hler wrote:
> > The termcap method is provided by libtermcap-compat. Most applications
> > which use this method only do so as an option for systems where terminf=
o
> > is not available -- for example, for Vim, terminfo vs termcap is a
> > compile-time option. The termcap database is limited, generally out of
> > date and mostly unmaintained. It will likely not remain in the tree for
> > much longer (bug #103105).
>=20
> Take a look at ncurses. ncurses even comes with a termcap.h in
> /usr/include. I think ncurses is source-compatible with termcap and
> offers the features needed to acces different terminal types.

Its supposed to be, but not always .. we never used to have
libtermcap-compat, but I was forced to add that after the minimal vi
implementation we had at a time did not work with ncurses ...

--=20
Martin Schlemmer


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