Re: terminfo for the Mac OS X Terminal

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Michail Vidiassov wrote:

> Dear Ben and All,
>
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Ben Wiley Sittler wrote:
>
> > The script and the terminfo are attached to this message,
> > and they're also available here:
> >
> > http://zoehep.xent.com/~bsittler/mach_acs
> > http://zoehep.xent.com/~bsittler/xnuppc.ti
>
> There is a comment
>
> # If you're looking for a description of the Terminal.app terminal
> # emulator which runs under the Mac OS X Quartz windowing system, see
> # the "nsterm" entry instead.
>
> Who are the developers of that "nsterm" entry, was it updated for Mac OS X 
> 10.5 and/or how was it created?

The changelog at the bottom of terminfo.src shows this:

# 2001-04-14
#       * correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
#       * add "Apple_Terminal" entries -Benjamin Sittler
#       * remove time-delays from "Apple_Terminal" entries -TD
#       * make sgr entries time-delays consistent with individual caps -TD


# 2001-07-21
#       * renamed "Apple_Terminal" entries to "nsterm" to work with Solaris's
#         tic which handles names no longer than 14 characters.  Add
#         corresponding descriptions for the Darwin PowerPC console named
#         "xnuppc" -Benjamin Sittler

> Terminal.app claims to be an xterm, but what are test results?

> From newsgroup discussion, I understand that it does reasonably well
with vttest for the VT102 stuff, but haven't seen any reliable source
discussing compatibility with xterm.  (I seem to recall some newsgroup
comment that the mouse stuff doesn't work).

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