#Posted-Date: Fri, 9 Mar 90 18:34:29 EST #Date: Fri, 9 Mar 90 18:34:29 EST #From: "Eirik Fuller" <wonton.tn.cornell.edu!eirik@ucsbcsl.UUCP> #To: bfox@ai.mit.edu (Brian Fox) #Subject: Patch to bash 1.05 for SunView # #I think this works: # Mu|sun-cmd:am:bs:km:pt:li#34:co#80:cl=^L:ce=\E[K:cd=\E[J:rs=\E[s: # #Another alternative is to send the ti string at startup time (and, I #guess, the te string at exit time); that is how vi works in a cmdtool. #The best reason to not do this is that this also disables scrolling #which, as I understand it, is why anyone would use cmdtool in the #first place. Sending the ti string at startup time would do strange #things on other systems too; in xterm it would use the alternate #screen. # #The problem with cmdtool, in case that is less than obvious, is that #almost none of the capabilities advertised in /etc/termcap are enabled #while scrolling is enabled. It has other problems too, like being #part of an outdated proprietary windowing system, but there's probably #no need to dwell on that. In a sense, though, the sun-cmd termcap #entry doesn't lie about the capabilities; I think the termcap man page #does warn about some terminals having cursor motion capabilities only #in the "ti/te window". # #A general solution to this problem would require a termcap capability #which somehow tells which features are available outside of the ti/te #window. There is no such capability in termcap now, of course.