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Bug#232345: marked as done (xterm: Control sequences document is not installed anywhere)

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Package: xterm
Version: 4.2.1-12.1
Severity: wishlist

xterm(1) tells me to look into ctlseqs.ms for a list of control sequences
supported by xterm. However it fails to tell me, that the file is located in
/usr/share/doc/xterm/ and it does not tell me that it is actually called
ctlseqs.txt.gz, now.

Greetings
Bernd

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux calista 2.6.0 #4 Sat Jan 3 22:09:04 CET 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-11   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfreetype6              2.1.7-1.1      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libncurses5               5.3.20030719-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libxaw7                   4.2.1-12.1     X Athena widget set library
ii  xlibs                     4.2.1-12.1     X Window System client libraries

-- no debconf information

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Version: 222-2

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:50:34PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2007-04-12 08:04:57 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2007-04-11 23:00:59 -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > > retitle 232345 xterm: Control sequences document is not installed anywhere
> > > severity 232345 important
> > > thanks
> > > 
> > > Well, this old bug has actually gotten *worse*. While xterm (1)
> > > refers repeatedly to the control sequences document, now that
> > > document is not located *anywhere* in the files installed by
> > > Debian's 'xterm' package.
> > 
> > Here they are in the standard place /usr/share/doc/xterm/, but gzipped.
> > I think that's OK.
> 
> I forgot to say: I have xterm 225-1, i.e. the latest version.
> 
> In fact, you are probably seeing another bug (bug 301173). According
> to the changelog file, this bug was fixed in 222-2:
> 
>   * Ship "Xterm Control Sequences" document again, in both GNU Roff and plain
>     text formats, and register the latter with doc-base.  (The former is
>     easily viewable in a terminal with "groff -Tutf8 ctlseqs.ms | more", so it
>     seems useful.)  (Closes: #301173)
> 
> Since the original bug 232345 (inconsistency between the man page and
> what was really shipped at that time) is also fixed (IMHO), I think
> this bug should be closed.

I agree.  Thanks, Vincent!

zcat /usr/share/doc/xterm/ctlseqs.ms.gz | groff -Tutf8 | more

...will show you the document.  Note that it doesn't look great with any
output device...in PostScript and X devices, the boxes seem a bit off.
Might be a bug in groff.

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