On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:06:06PM -0800, Philip Brown wrote: > It doesnt have to be incompatible. > You could just toss out the conflicting stuff, and have the pure 'xterm' > terminfo entry be something compatible with *both* versions. I think that would probably break reverse-video altogether. > >Furthermore, understand that XFree86 is the most widely deployed > >implementation of the X Window System today. > > Do you REALLY want to bring up all the microsoft comparisons with "most > widely deployed, so screw everyone else..." I'm glad you mentioned that, because the X Consortium's version of xterm has a BUG with respect to its reverse video handling. Just read that FAQ. So, now you get to argue to me that I should support compatibility with a widely-deployed bug. -- G. Branden Robinson | Damnit, we're all going to die; Debian GNU/Linux | let's die doing something *useful*! branden@debian.org | -- Hal Clement, on comments that http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | space exploration is dangerous
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