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Re: ";0c" in terminal with slow connections
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: ";0c" in terminal with slow connections |
Date: |
Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:17:03 -0700 |
[Maybe you are not aware, but your tone sounds irritating. Please be
more careful on this mailing list.]
Vincent Lefevre <address@hidden> writes:
> On 2007-09-08 01:35:14 -0700, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
> > Vincent Lefevre <address@hidden> writes:
> > > Why not let the user configure his xterm the way he likes?
> >
> > You are missing the point, this is done because we would like the users
> > to transparently take advantage of this feature without having to
> > configure anything.
> But what about users who are used to the current configuration
> or have their own configuration?
Can you please give a precise example of what you mean?
> If this feature is so important to have it without configuring
> anything, then why doesn't xterm enable it by default?
Don't know, please find out from the xterm guys and report back here.
> > > If you enable modifyOtherKeys, won't the configuration change
> > > for other applications running in xterm?
> >
> > Emacs restores the setting on suspend and quit.
>
> This is not sufficient:
> * Emacs won't be able to do anything for screen users, after
> detaching a session running Emacs or after switching the
> screen window.
Screen sets TERM to screen, so this won't affect such users.
> * If Emacs crashes (this hasn't happened yet with Emacs22,
> though), the configuration will not be restored.
> * In case of a SSH or dialup connection, if the connection closes
> because of some network problem (this occurs quite frequently),
> the configuration will not be restored either.
We can only do a best effort.
> > > What if the user has set up VT100 translations corresponding
> > > to C-. C-, and so on?
> >
> > I am not sure what is your point here.
>
> The user can bind some key sequences (in general, ones that are not
> used in the terminal itself) to some xterm functions (e.g. to do
> scrolling, paste strings and so on). This is done with the VT100
> translations resource. What is the effect of modifyOtherKeys on
> these bindings? (I don't have a xterm here to try...)
You seem to know about this stuff, why don't you try it and report any
problems that you find here.
- Re: ";0c" in terminal with slow connections, (continued)
- Re: ";0c" in terminal with slow connections, Davis Herring, 2007/09/06
- Re: ";0c" in terminal with slow connections, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/07
- Re: ";0c" in terminal with slow connections, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/09/07
- Re: ";0c" in terminal with slow connections, Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/09/07
- Re: ";0c" in terminal with slow connections, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/08
- Re: ";0c" in terminal with slow connections, Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/09/08
- Re: ";0c" in terminal with slow connections, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/08
- Re: ";0c" in terminal with slow connections, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/09/08
- Re: ";0c" in terminal with slow connections, Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/09/08
- Re: ";0c" in terminal with slow connections, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/09/08
- Re: ";0c" in terminal with slow connections,
Dan Nicolaescu <=
- Re: ";0c" in terminal with slow connections, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/09/09