[haiku-development] Re: Terminal escape codes
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:14:06 +0200
On 21/04/2012 16:59, Ingo Weinhold wrote:
> To be honest this does puzzle me. I mean the termcap definitions should be
> the same everywhere -- exactly because of remote logins, since otherwise it
> doesn't even make sense to use a common terminal type like "xterm" instead
> of just one specific for the particular terminal app (and version) for the
> local OS.
Ah, I thought I was getting stupid :D
>
> But then again, the whole termcap/terminfo is legacy and I wonder why no
> one has managed to introduce a method that works the other way around (i.e.
> let the client application ask the terminal for its configuration).
- Because no body remain large enough to be followed on this (OpenGroup?),
- because noone cares, it just works well enough,
- because you didn't yet submit a draft to POSIX or an RFC ? :D
François.
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