From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E7ttI-0002Ac-4m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:58:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7OBuJia025627; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:56:19 GMT Received: from ctb-mesg6.saix.net (ctb-mesg6.saix.net [196.25.240.86]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7OBs4TN006862 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:54:05 GMT Received: from gateway.lan (wblv-146-217-49.telkomadsl.co.za [165.146.217.49]) by ctb-mesg6.saix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C90E67303 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:55:03 +0200 (SAST) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gateway.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id 891D63A2548 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:28:20 +0200 (SAST) Received: from gateway.lan ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gateway.lan [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 08577-15 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:28:00 +0200 (SAST) Received: from lycan.lan (lycan.lan [192.168.0.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gateway.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BA1F3A248E for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:28:00 +0200 (SAST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fixing the TERM mess From: Martin Schlemmer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <20050821220505.4efbaff2@snowdrop.home> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Xn/eB63Gav20DZ9VBM6N" Organization: Gentoo Foundation Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:55:52 +0200 Message-Id: <1124884552.7187.3.camel@lycan.lan> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at nosferatu.za.org X-Archives-Salt: 6b689259-0c03-4fea-a63c-d1e6b7c84460 X-Archives-Hash: df22e41669dba8b151497e51e82b36bb --=-Xn/eB63Gav20DZ9VBM6N Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=-Xn/eB63Gav20DZ9VBM6N Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDDGBIqburzKaJYLYRAlbBAJ4nuvuzL8DFeQSFmwPzwKyQBiIPgwCeJjmJ vM1gkbde8VHnk6RniX4UTMo= =K4r8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Xn/eB63Gav20DZ9VBM6N-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list