[haiku-development] Re: Terminal escape codes
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:01:40 +0200
On 20/04/2012 20:13, Donn Cave wrote:
> Another way to approach this might be to make sure Terminal handles
> the mode switch sequence(s) (and it looks like it now does not, so
> that would take some work.)
>
> To the extent that termcap is relevant at all, then you may specify
> whichever flavor of cursor you prefer, and include the respective
> mode switch in the termcap screen mode initialization. An application
> that knows how to override that will get what it expects, and the
> rest will get what termcap leads them to expect.
>
> Unfortunately, that won't help so much with remote applications,
> since they're working from a different termcap. (E.g., the BBS
> example that may have brought this up.)
Well, as long as we declare a known TERM like xterm or xterm-color, we
should follow whichever public temrinfo declaration it has instead of
overriding it.
Or put back beterm if you want to patch the thing.
François.
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