Re: ANN: terminfo-20140607.src.gz

[Christian Ebert]

* Nicholas Marriott on Friday, June 20, 2014 at 12:34:28 +0100
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:10:25PM +0100, Christian Ebert wrote:
>> From a layman's perspective it's obviously hard to understand why
>> one has to resort to such gymnastics when it works in screen
>> without unchanged entry. What's the advantage of the tmux
>> approach?
> 
> Well, the advantage is you can have italics if you want them.
> 
> I expect you can probably get them in screen too by playing similar
> games with termcap or terminfo, but italics for SGR 3 is right and
> standout is wrong, so I'm reluctant to emulate screen.
> 
> Now that xterm has this we may have to rethink things because it will be
> more much common, up until now it was mostly just rxvt users. This may
> mean finally writing TERM=tmux, although that doesn't help most people
> for a few years...

Thanks for taking the time to explain.

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