Re: Follow up to adding xterm-termite to dircolors' supported termtypes

[Pádraig Brady]

On 15/08/15 19:12, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
> The issue was initially discussed here [0] and then followed up here [1] 
> where Pádraig mentioned that he needed to know why termite requires a 
> separate TERM. I would like to follow this up by linking this [2] discussion.
> 
> Pádraig, if you're reading this but don't want to read the whole Talk:Termite 
> page, the gist is provided by thestinger (primary termite developer): "The 
> terminfo for VTE and xterm is fairly different. For example, Termite supports 
> italic text and it won't work if TERM is set to xterm. Even the backspace key 
> won't work properly anymore for sane applications relying on terminfo rather 
> than hardcoding dozens of escape sequences."
> 
> I hope you can see the need for accepting this small patch as it makes the 
> lives a bit easier for those of us using termite.
> 
> Sven
> 
> [0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2015-01/msg00059.html
> [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2015-05/msg00063.html
> [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:Termite

Applied.

http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=a960c31

thanks,
Pádraig.