Re: xterm

[Erdmut Pfeifer <e.pfeifer@science-computing.de>]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 11:36:44AM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciob?c? wrote:

> Do you know the reason why for characters 170 and 186 the default table
> use 170 and 186? They are in separate set. To solve my problem I put
> in my .Xdefault file:
> 
> *VT100.charClass: 170:48,186:48

I have no idea what's so special about these two chars to justify a
separate set for each -- but what you have defined sounds like a
reasonable solution to me...


> 
> xterm -version says that I have: XFree86 3.3.6(88c). I can't find
> this one on http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.log.html

the more recent sections of this log mainly seem to be tracking the
changes to xterm along the pre-4.0 development branch of XFree -- I
think that's why your "3.3.6" does not appear there. You probably need
to guess a good keyword to search for instead...

BTW, xterm itself apparently has a somewhat unconventional versioning
scheme: no real version number, but patch 150 -- (perhaps it's
supposed to be tied directly to XFree, rather than having versions
of its own?)
(maybe we should adopt this and say: Debian - patch 20389, or so :))


> 
> Maybe I should install a new version. Anyway I figure it out that
> I have a version with a older documentation.

well, I would say, if your current xterm accepts the X-Resource
settings you need (and does behave as expected), you might just as well
leave things as they are. But, of course, that's up to you...

Cheers,
Erdmut


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