On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:48:31PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:43:12AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > > I think this change should say something about full screen support. > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:43:39AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Full screen support? What does that mean? Maximizable to the size of the > > root window? Works well with the "screen" program? > > 9term does not have an addressable cursor. Hrm. I'm starting to think I should mandate VT100 (or VT220/320/420/520) support. > Sorry -- I made the assumption that 9term's unicode support is good as it > gets for the current stock of debian terminal emulators. You're right: > this assumption could easily be false. That may be the case at present, for all I know, but I do not expect it to remain so. > > If 9term emulates a printer, why is it called a terminal emulator? > > More properly, it emulates a terminal where TERM=dumb gains you access > to all of its features. ex works fine, but vi is rather silly. That does not, in my opinion, meet a reasonable user's expectations of something called "x-terminal-emulator". -- G. Branden Robinson | The key to being a Southern Baptist: Debian GNU/Linux | It ain't a sin if you don't get caught. branden@debian.org | -- Anthony Davidson http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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