Re: bug in xterm -nw mode?

[Sam Halliday]

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > it would appear the aterm src/features.h are slightly misleading: they say
> > LINUX_KEYS are *not* used as default, but they blatently are as they are
> > defined on the next line! :-D
> hmm - not in the copy I was reading (0.4.2).

aterm-0.42/src/features.h:
  /*
   * To use
   *      Home = "\E[1~", End = "\E[4~"
   * instead of
   *      Home = "\E[7~", End = "\E[8~"   [default]
   */
  #define LINUX_KEYS

if [default] were not there, i would agree with you. but this doesnt make any
sense; to me, at least, i think of it as saying "to get a different keybinding
from the default, uncomment this next line", but the next line is uncommented
anyway. thats the style the rest of the file is written in.

default should only ever be written beside the _actual_ default of anything
(i.e. the do-nothing on the user's side), and in this case, the "default" has
now switched to using LINUX_KEYS. i should have looked at the relevant code, and
then i would have seen which one was being used in the first place.

i guess its just a matter of grammatical opinion, and by reading the code
instead of the english, it makes a lot more sense :-D

but, i am getting massively off-topic and i will stop this now...

cheers again,
Sam