Re: ANN: terminfo-20140607.src.gz

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:34:28PM +0100, Nicholas Marriott wrote:
> Well, the advantage is you can have italics if you want them.
> 
> I expect you can probably get them in screen too by playing similar

...but only by losing one of the current capabilities: screen maintains
state only for those, and if an SGR 0 is sent, it will only "know" that
italics are reset if they're actually one of the codes that it knows about.

> games with termcap or terminfo, but italics for SGR 3 is right and
> standout is wrong, so I'm reluctant to emulate screen.

agreed
 
> Now that xterm has this we may have to rethink things because it will be
> more much common, up until now it was mostly just rxvt users. This may
> mean finally writing TERM=tmux, although that doesn't help most people
> for a few years...

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