This is regarding the x-terminal-emulator thread. ----- Forwarded message from dickey@herndon4.his.com ----- From: dickey@herndon4.his.com To: branden@debian.org Cc: dickey@herndon4.his.com Subject: http://x54.deja.com/=dnc/[ST_rn=ps,ST_m=ps]/threadmsg_ct.xp?AN=687793 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 04:55:18 -0500 Delivered-To: branden@localhost.deadbeast.net Delivered-To: branden@deadbeast.net Message-Id: <200010310955.EAA00373@home.dickey.net> X-URL: http://x54.deja.com/=dnc/[ST_rn=ps,ST_m=ps]/threadmsg_ct.xp?AN=687793069.1&mhitnum=5&CONTEXT=972985611.1187774515 X-Mailer: Lynx, Version 2.8.4dev.13 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by home.dickey.net id EAA00373 you forgot the -fn option (all emulators should support -rv as well). > Re: x-terminal-emulator > Author: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> > Date: 2000/10/30 > Forum: linux.debian.devel > > author posting history > Post Reply · Prev · Next > _________________________________________________________________ > >--Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Disposition: inline >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:08:32PM -0800, Bradley Bell wrote: >> isn't xterm the 'de facto' standard? it would seem to me that any options >> xterm understands ought to be supported by x-terminal-emulator. If >> a certain terminal emulater is not xterm compatible, it would be trivial = >to >> provide an 'xterm compatibility wrapper', and have x-terminal-emulator po= >int >> to that.=20 > >Nononono. I love xterm to death, but requiring support for its many, many >options is the death of a thousand cuts. Most other terminal emulators >don't fool with the Tektronix 4014 emulation, for instance. Try "man >xterm" sometime and feel your head reel as the bajillions of options scroll >by. > >I think requiring a *small* compatibility subset is the way to go. There's >not all that many things a terminal emulator needs to be able to >configurably from the command line to satisfy the requirements of a program >(as opposed to a user) that calls it: > >1) accept a geometry specification >2) accept a title >3) exec a specified command > >Maybe, *maybe* we should require -ls (login shell) support, but even that >is pushing it, I think. > >As much as I love xterm, I don't think it's fair to require that every >other X terminal emulator be just like it. > >--=20 >G. Branden Robinson | One man's theology is another man's >Debian GNU/Linux | belly laugh. >branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein >http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@herndon4.his.com> http://dickey.his.com ftp://dickey.his.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Please do not look directly into laser branden@deadbeast.net | with remaining eye. http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ |
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