Re: 0.15.5 released

["Jason M. Felice" <jasonf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 07:40:56PM +1300, Carey Evans wrote:
> "Jason M. Felice" <jasonf@Baldwingroup.COM> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > I removed smacs, rmacs, and acsc entries from the terminfo entries just
> > to fix this problem.  I think both your solution and the current solution
> > would have different maintenance issues.  For example, we load a complete
> > keymap with loadkeys, so we could possible be using a different set of keys
> > than the default terminfo for the linux console.  I think your way might be
> > better for xterm, though.
> 
> Actually, I ran into a problem here when recompiling tn5250 after
> installing ncurses 5.  The xterm terminfo entry now contains
> definitions for kf1 to kf48, and xterm maps Sh-F1 to Sh-F12 to kf13 to
> kf24, but with different escape codes than the Linux console and
> 5250.terminfo.

ncurses5 is out?  Since when?  I'll have to take a looksie.

> 
> In fact, the only thing missing in xterm now to just run tn5250 in the
> window is a definition and key binding for kcbt.  I would expect an
> xterm to map ISO_Left_Tab (which Shift-Tab produces on my keyboard) to
> this, but there's no definition for it at all.  Maybe I should see
> what it would take to get it included.

I really have to take a look, there were other keys that we had to do the
kludge-map thing for.  We may even want to retrofit the terminal types in
the package with the current xterm terminfo/Linux terminfos if those really
are sufficient.

-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice

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