Re: bug in xterm -nw mode?

[Thomas Dickey]

Sam Halliday <devnull@example.com> wrote:
> Glenn Morris wrote:
>> Sam Halliday wrote:
>> > i have no entry for either khome or kend in the xterm terminfos
>> OK, then we have slightly different terminfo databases.
>> I have ncurses-5.2, you have ncurse-5.3.
>> 
>> The only relevant ChangeLog entry seems to be
>> 
>>     * Fri Jan 31 2003 Adrian Havill <havill@redhat.com> 5.3-3
>>       - remunged xterm changes from 5.2 patch for 5.3

> hmm. i am using canonical ncurses-5.3, i will see if this patch is worth
> applying.

>> Whether this is the cause of the problems you have, I couldn't say,
>> though, I'm afraid.

> well, if this patch fixes everything, it begs the question... is ncurses using
> incorrect terminfos which redhat have to patch every time, or are the ncurses
> team correct and everyone has been assumign things they shoudl not about the
> TERMs? this needs more research...

Redhat makes changes which (imho) are unnecessary, and tend to complicate life.

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