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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: xterm: please restore default charClass
- From: Kirk Hilliard <kirk@debian.org>
- Date: 16 Jan 2006 13:18:57 -0500
- Message-id: <87fynoc9ym.fsf@ghoti.com>
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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Source: xterm
Source-Version: 210-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xterm, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
xterm_210-1.diff.gz
to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_210-1.diff.gz
xterm_210-1.dsc
to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_210-1.dsc
xterm_210-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_210-1_i386.deb
xterm_210.orig.tar.gz
to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_210.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 348384@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
David Nusinow <dnusinow@debian.org> (supplier of updated xterm package)
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Format: 1.7
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:12:41 -0500
Source: xterm
Binary: xterm
Architecture: source i386
Version: 210-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: David Nusinow <dnusinow@debian.org>
Changed-By: David Nusinow <dnusinow@debian.org>
Description:
xterm - X terminal emulator
Closes: 347415 348384 348457 350664 351425
Changes:
xterm (210-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* New upstream release (the following are fixes immediately relevant to
Debian. More are in the upstream changelog)
+ allow cursor to have the same color as foreground (text), since it is
rendered as reverse (closes: #350664)
+ add TIOCSCTTY ioctl() ifdef'd for __GNU__ to set the controlling
terminal (closes: #348457)
+ typo in manpage (closes: #351425)
+ revert the XTerm.ad change from patch #208 (closes: #348384)
+ add check to ensure that double-clicking to extend selection will not
extend it into the scrollback area. This still allows users to scroll
back and select text (closes: #347415)
* Remove the 01_stolen_from_HEAD patch, as it is now obsolete
* Switch build dependency from libxaw8-dev to libxaw7-dev
* debian/rules clean target now calls make clean instead of distclean
* Use dh_install's --list-missing option
* Merge duplicate Provides fields
Files:
4288a33ed518cdf13dfad2f635199f88 769 x11 optional xterm_210-1.dsc
1528b95619b21740c01addd5c9fdb4f0 761944 x11 optional xterm_210.orig.tar.gz
2e4344fa69b5509a4304047b8e0e7c94 60615 x11 optional xterm_210-1.diff.gz
d4cbebe84de67b0e00f915726b3718cc 390176 x11 optional xterm_210-1_i386.deb
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