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 1E7inK-0004eG-6l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:07:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7O05UJG009020; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:05:30 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7O03nSQ016103 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:03:49 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E7il4-0002ED-4A for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:04:46 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1E7ijd-0003qV-Vn for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 02:03:18 +0200 Received: from dsl-082-083-001-105.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.1.105]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 02:03:17 +0200 Received: from skoehler by dsl-082-083-001-105.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 02:03:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fixing the TERM mess Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:56:14 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20050821220505.4efbaff2@snowdrop.home> 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig1B7950E7FF882A80FD76EFCA" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl-082-083-001-105.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20050821220505.4efbaff2@snowdrop.home> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 11b6c5d0-09d3-41c8-ae4c-2823b7150f64 X-Archives-Hash: 40b67866ab22398fa2e27695ef25236c This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig1B7950E7FF882A80FD76EFCA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > The termcap method is provided by libtermcap-compat. Most applications > which use this method only do so as an option for systems where terminfo > 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). 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. --------------enig1B7950E7FF882A80FD76EFCA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDC7ef7Ww7FjRBE4ARAgvzAJ0Yb+cvSkplf1pzYLKzeh9jlOVDHgCbBeGx Wa4fPuMNbe2erkjHhHCWAns= =MJ0j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig1B7950E7FF882A80FD76EFCA-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list