[systemd-devel] Question about 'vt100-nav' : unknown terminal type

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sat, 25.12.10 16:35, Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen at err.no) wrote:

> | I see little reason to deviate in this regard between distributions
> | and hence I'd very much appreciate if a) Debian would adopt the same
> | terminfo package as everybody else or b) we find an equally suitable
> | default TERM value that is known on both Debian and everything else.
> 
> What's wrong with just using vt100?  AIUI, vt100-nav is the same, just
> with less «advanced» video capabilities.  The terminfo entry is:
> 
> vt100-nav|vt100 without advanced video option,
>         xmc#1,
>         blink@, bold@, rev@, rmso=\E[m, rmul@, sgr@, sgr0@, smso=\E[7m,
>         smul@, use=vt100,
> 
> so, no blink, no bold, no reverse video, standout is reverse video
> (which looks odd, if it doesn't support reverse video), no underline, no
> attribute modes, but otherwise a vt100.

Hmm, interesting. If this is the case it might indeed be an option to
switch to v100 by default.

Bill, do you remember why vt100-nav has been used on Fedora for this?
Would you oppose if we switch the default to vt100 everywhere?

Lennart

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