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Re: [survey] TERM=rxvt-unicode as package default



Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org> wrote:
> Hello,

> I am the maintainer of rxvt-unicode and wish to get more user comments
> on the recent change in the package. Nowadays, it uses "rxvt-unicode" as
> the TERM setting which makes curses-based applications use the new
> terminfo file which is slightly different than the one from rxvt (more
> and better colors, italic fonts, and should fix some rxvt bugs). That is
> the setting prefered by the upstream author.

"some rxvt bugs" is vague.  rxvt-unicode's changelog is equally vague.
Perhaps the maintainers could devote a few minutes to rectifying this.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net



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