Re: -2 in numeric and string capabilities

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 11:01:51AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Thomas Dickey:
> 
> >> I see it in Debian's ncurses-term package (version
> >> 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2).  It occurs for the numeric capability 15
> >> (no_color_video, I think) in the xterm-xf86-v32 terminal description,
> >
> > You're referring to a cancelled capability, which infocmp shows as
> >
> >     ncv@,
> 
> Yes.  It's not clear to me whether this is supposed to be a
> source-only feature, given that term(5) does not provide a way to
> represent it in the binary (and explicitly says that -2 is not valid
> in these places, although these values occur in practice).
> 
> Does this clarify my concerns?

I believe that I understood it properly in my first response.
I added a to-do item for this, which I'll probably work on this weekend.

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