Bug#2855: nvi changes xterm settings...

[Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu>]

In message <19960430160957.19473.qmail@tad.micro.umn.edu>, Raul Miller writes:
>For a while I thought this might be an xterm problem -- or even an
>ncurses problem.  All of these coordinate to manage the layout of
>characters...  However, less, more and emacs -nw don't trigger this
>problem, so you're probably right that it's an nvi problem.

Except ncftp also triggered the problem, and xterms (well, rxvts) had
been having problems editing long command histories in bash.

I think it was ncurses.  Either way, as far as I can tell, it's been
solved for the programs I used that caused me problems by the new
ncurses upgrade.

>Aside: it would be nice if there were a program to map from escape
>sequences to terminfo capabilities...  It would be even nicer if the
>result could be made an html document with references into appropriate
>documentation.

Don't ask for much, do you?

I daresay that if there is a Perl module for dealing with terminfo, I
might be able to do something like the first part.

Mike.
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