1#Posted-Date: Fri, 9 Mar 90 18:34:29 EST
2#Date: Fri, 9 Mar 90 18:34:29 EST
3#From: "Eirik Fuller" <wonton.tn.cornell.edu!eirik@ucsbcsl.UUCP>
4#To: bfox@ai.mit.edu (Brian Fox)
5#Subject: Patch to bash 1.05 for SunView
6#
7#I think this works:
8#
9Mu|sun-cmd:am:bs:km:pt:li#34:co#80:cl=^L:ce=\E[K:cd=\E[J:rs=\E[s:
10#
11#Another alternative is to send the ti string at startup time (and, I
12#guess, the te string at exit time); that is how vi works in a cmdtool.
13#The best reason to not do this is that this also disables scrolling
14#which, as I understand it, is why anyone would use cmdtool in the
15#first place.  Sending the ti string at startup time would do strange
16#things on other systems too; in xterm it would use the alternate
17#screen.
18#
19#The problem with cmdtool, in case that is less than obvious, is that
20#almost none of the capabilities advertised in /etc/termcap are enabled
21#while scrolling is enabled.  It has other problems too, like being
22#part of an outdated proprietary windowing system, but there's probably
23#no need to dwell on that.  In a sense, though, the sun-cmd termcap
24#entry doesn't lie about the capabilities; I think the termcap man page
25#does warn about some terminals having cursor motion capabilities only
26#in the "ti/te window".
27#
28#A general solution to this problem would require a termcap capability
29#which somehow tells which features are available outside of the ti/te
30#window.  There is no such capability in termcap now, of course.
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