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by somat
758 days ago
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Gotta admit I still have ptsd from working with a company that invested big in WYSE terminals early on. We were trying to switch over to terminal emulators and really wanted to just use one of the myriad of vt100 emulators avialable. Every single day was a different variant of "wtf is this. I wish they had just used terminfo" So I don't know how needed it is anymore. But I will have a hard time giving up terminfo and going over to the darkside. |
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Most terminals today are mostly vt-like? So the F what?
Whether anyone likes it or not, or beleives it or not because of their own limited direct personal experience, the problem that termcap/terminfo worked around still exists today.
Since the problem still exists, the solution (or I would call it more of a work-around) is still required. Simply pretending or ignoring doesn't resolve anything.
When some spec becomes a decreed standard that you can actually count on, like we take one of the many vt-alikes and enshrine that one and all terminals are actually required to impliment that spec exactly, then you can maybe talk about "we don't need termcap or terminfo any more, it's ok to hard-code this spec from now on"
And I won't even start on all the things wrong with "just map both to up arrow" holy cow.