On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 07:42:21PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > Hi Thomas! > > On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:47:00 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 11:40:11PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > >> I'm not sure this is really a bug, but I cannot find anything in > >> the documentation. In case it's there, can anyone point me at it, > >> please? > >> > >> Basically, I'd like to define UXTerm resources in the *XTerm form > >> (which is perfectly valid for xterm itself), in order to avoid > >> resource duplications. As I wrote, it seems that xterm supports > >> *XTerm, while uxterm no. > > > > The uxterm script sets the class to "UXTerm" so that there are no > > conflicts in resource intent/interpretation between the two uses. > > I'm aware of that and indeed this is a reason I started with "I'm not > sure this is really a bug". > > If the "problem" is not clear, here my second try: I usually quite > exclusively uxterm and thus I could specify UXTerm resources as > UXTerm. However, sometime I start an xterm and, obviously, I don't > have my UXTerm settings. Since resources specified as *XTerm are > correctly read by xterm, I assumed that '*' is a wildcard, which > stands for "all", thus "*XTerm" means "every class which ends in > XTerm". Wildcards in Xt resources aren't supposed to do that (oddly enough). They replace whole leaf-names rather than parts of them. The resource syntax is documented in the X manpage (at the moment I'm on Solaris, and know the the Linux manpage is named different...). Here's the text, for reference: The precise syntax for resources is: ResourceLine = Comment | IncludeFile | ResourceSpec | <empty line> Comment = "!" {<any character except null or newline>} IncludeFile = "#" WhiteSpace "include" WhiteSpace FileName WhiteSpace FileName = <valid filename for operating system> ResourceSpec = WhiteSpace ResourceName WhiteSpace ":" WhiteSpace Value ResourceName = [Binding] {Component Binding} ComponentName Binding = "." | "*" WhiteSpace = {<space> | <horizontal tab>} Component = "?" | ComponentName ComponentName = NameChar {NameChar} NameChar = "a"-"z" | "A"-"Z" | "0"-"9" | "_" | "-" Value = {<any character except null or unescaped newline>} I usually do this a different way, setting $XAPPLRESDIR to my $HOME/app-defaults (and putting individual resource files there). Doing that means I don't have to prefix things with the class name, unless I'm overriding something in the system's app-defaults file. (More-specific patterns override more-general ones - you cannot redefine the same pattern). I use "#include" there, and in the system's app-defaults to reduce duplication. > If the latter is right, this should be the case for UXTerm, too. > Since it's not the case, this is a bug. However, if I'm wrong, I'll > change the severity of this bug as 'wishlist' ;-) > > Thx, bye, > Gismo / Luca -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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