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by Brian_K_White
753 days ago
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Agreed. I never understand the argument that we should forget that we solved a problem. 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. |
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Could you humour us with just a couple of the things wrong with it? Cos I'm certainly interested to learn more about it. :)