Bug#363576: vim uses incorrect escape sequence "device-control-string"?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:30:36AM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote:
> Hi,
> > To be honest, I'm not sure why they just don't set $TERM to 'gnome'.
> > That's the termcap entry for *their* terminal emulator. *shrug*
> 
> Do all "supported platforms" have a gnome termcap? I can imagine that

Actually it's terminfo - except for NetBSD, there's no current (past 10
years) platform that actually uses termcap other than for legacy support.

I don't know - what's your list for "supported platforms"?

> some other (buggy) applications work better when you claim to be xterm
> when you are just mostly compatible.

none that I'm aware of (excepting of course, programs that hardcode "xterm"
into their scripts, of course).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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