Bug#348384: xterm: please restore default charClass
Package: xterm
Version: 208-2
Severity: wishlist
Hi Ender,
I've been trying to write this bug report up as a request for more
visible documentation of this change, but it keeps turning into a
wishlist submission, so I thought I'd be honest with myself and file
it that way.
The changelog.Debian.gz entry for xterm 208-1 of 6 Jan 2006 states:
- add charClass resource to XTerm.ad and UXTerm.ad which simplifies
selecting URLs
1. I feel that this is a poor choice and should be reverted.
xterm now equates all of '!#%&+,-./:=?@_~' with letters and numbers.
More restrictive word selection, allowing the selection of a file name
from a complete pathname, is A Good Thing. The onus of figuring out
why xterms act differently from the default behavior described in the
man page and how to fix it should not be placed on the new user.
But hey, that's my opinion, and its your package. If you disagree,
then I gracefully withdraw the wishlist request.
2. If the change stays, it should be more visibly documented.
Shouldn't this be documented somewhere more prominent than the
changelog, say README.Debian at the very least. How about:
As of version 208-2, /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm contains a
charClass resource to simplify selecting URLs. Individual users may
override this with following line to their ~/.Xresources file:
*charClass:
3. In any case, I'd like to report a couple of typos.
Patch for minor typo in man page XTERM(1x)
------------------------------------ 8< ------------------------------------
--- xterm.1x.orig 2006-01-09 02:33:39.000000000 -0500
+++ xterm.1x 2006-01-16 11:58:14.000000000 -0500
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@
.B "-cc \fIcharacterclassrange\fP:\fIvalue\fP[,...]"
This sets classes indicated by the given ranges for using in selecting by
words.
-See the section specifying character classes.
+See the section specifying character classes
and discussion of the \fIcharClass\fP resource.
.TP 8
.B "-cjk_width"
------------------------------------ >8 ------------------------------------
Patch for minor typo in README.Debian
------------------------------------ 8< ------------------------------------
--- README.Debian.orig 2006-01-16 12:02:16.000000000 -0500
+++ README.Debian 2006-01-16 12:02:48.000000000 -0500
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
27, a.k.a ESCAPE) instead of ^? (ASCII 127)
^[[3~ is the DEC VT220 escape sequence for the keypad delete key (not the
numeric keypad, the one with Page Up, Page Down, etc. on a PC keyboard).
-DEC VT100's, the text terminal wich xterm was designed to emulate, had no
+DEC VT100's, the text terminal which xterm was designed to emulate, had no
keypad delete key. ^[[3~ is also what the Linux console terminal type
generates for the keypad delete key. Note that the terminal definitions
that a Debian system uses are in the ncurses-term package, not in the xterm
------------------------------------ 8< ------------------------------------
Kirk
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