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> pretend to be rxvt, and deal with the fallout (now, admittedly, the only user I care about for my terminal is me - at least for now It's fine when it's just
by kps 3y ago
> pretend to be rxvt, and deal with the fallout (now, admittedly, the only user I care about for my terminal is me - at least for now
It's fine when it's just you. Unfortunately, there are some widely used terminals that default to claiming to be xterm, but are not xterm compatible.
- vidarh 3y agoFrankly, I find most work well enough with xterm or rxvt termcaps to prefer that over having apps just refuse to even try to work until you've changed settings. But conversely, if distributed like that, I'd also feel that this implicitly means any failure to act like xterm is a bug they've implicitly suggested it is reasonable to report or complain about (and if the version number doesn't imply it's an early stage release, and it still doesn't work well with its defaults, I'd get cranky)
- o11c 3y agoIf you send feature-detection queries it doesn't matter. The nasty part is that RXVT violates ISO 2022 structure in weird ways. It's not alone in that, but most of the other-program violations are much more easily fixed.