Re: jove on xterms on Linux probs

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 > From: http://www.mimosa.com/~hugh ("D. Hugh Redelmeier")
 > Date: Wed  Oct 30, 12:05am
 >
 > | XX-from: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)
 > | From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)
 > 
 > This looks interesting.  Is this some security thing?

No.  It's because, if in some future date this account becomes disabled,
people may be bright [read: tricky] enough to use the http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert
account instead which will always be correct.


 > | Sorry if this has already been asked, but I've been having problems with
 > | 4.16beta.52 in xterms on Linux 2.0.0.
 > 
 > Why not use the 4.16 non-beta?

I wanted to live on the cutting edge -- but I guess I'm bleeding while living
there, huh?

 > |  It seems that insert redisplay is
 > | in correct.  It appears that some sort of an insert mode is on, but that,
 > | in addition to the actual character getting inserted, a space is also
 > | inserted causing the display to be incorrect.
 > 
 > This is a known (to me) bug in the LINUX termcap and terminfo
 > databases.
 > 
 > There are two capabilities for specifying insertion: insert mode
 > entry/exit, and insert a character (or n characters).  The specs of
 > termcap say that if both capabilities are present, the program must
 > use both, not one or the other.  The author of the LINUX tables didn't
 > understand this.
 > 
 > In terminfo, for every entry that defines "smir", you should remove
 > the "ich1" and "ich" capabilities.  Actually, there might be terminals
 > that really need both, but I don't know of any -- certainly not xterm
 > or the LINUX console.
 > 
 > In termcap, for every terminal description that defines "im", you
 > should remove any "ic" and "IC" capabilities.

I'll do both of these...

 > | Has this problem been fixed in a later version?  Is this a known bug?
 > 
 > I know it :-).  I thought that I convinced the person who I thought
 > was responsible, but there has been no change in the distributions
 > that I use.  Do you know the right way of reporting this problem?
 > 
 > Hugh Redelmeier
 > http://www.mimosa.com/~hugh  voice: +1 416 482-8253