savannah: Reassigned item: putty and other terminals

[mirkobau]

Original: ​http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?16910

Submitted by:	mirko <mirkobau>	Submitted on:	Thu 22 Jun 2006 01:30:35 PM UTC
Category:	None	Severity:	3 - Normal
Status:	None	Privacy:	Public
Assigned to:	None	Open/Closed:	Open
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Original submission:

putty (puttyssh.org) is an xterm-compliant terminal emulator with 
mouse support, and has its own terminfo definition file that 
instructs ncurses how to correctly recognize the keys received, but 
in 'src/main.c' the 'if..' block does tests only on xterm, rxvt, 
and dtterm terminals.

i used TERM=xterm-color, but when i found the terminfo file 'putty-
256color' i wanted to use it.
After standard compilation everythyng was running well (home/end 
keys, and all others), but mc had no mouse support.

actually i have corrected this problem adding the comparison:

|| strncmp (termvalue, "putty", 5) == 0

in the main.c file, in function init_xterm_support(), but i suggest 
to insert a parameter in a global option file, in wich a sysadmin 
could insert a line such as:

[xterm-compliant]
xterm*
rxvt*
dtterm
putty*
fooxterm*
barxterm*
...

and so on.
thank you for the time spent in reading my opinions.

bye from Mir (it@euro).

Comment 1 by Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov> at Tue 25 Apr 2006 01:44:34 PM UTC:

http://puttyssh.org/faq.html#faq-term

Where does putty-256color come from ?

Anyway, I think that your suggestion about adding a new section to 
the configuration file makes sense.

Comment 2 by mirko <mirkobau> at Tue 25 Apr 2006 02:56:11 PM UTC:

i took it from a terminfo definitions file, downloadable from:

ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/

the file i used is: terminfo.src.gz

inside it i have found a section with putty and putty-256color 
definitions:

gunzip terminfo.src.gz
tic terminfo.src

note: tic says that terminfo.src has some errors, but i didn't 
care, 'cause i really need the definitions for xterm* and putty* 
terminals.

Comment 3 by Leonard den Ottolander <leonardjo> at Thu 22 Jun 2006 01:30:35 PM UTC:

This item has been reassigned from the project GNU Midnight 
Commander patch tracker to your tracker.

The original report is still available at patch #5050

Following are the information included in the original report:

[field #0] Item ID: 5050
[field #1] Group ID: 3521
[field #2] Open/Closed: Open
[field #3] Severity: 3 - Normal
[field #4] Privacy: Public
[field #6] Category: Keyboard input
[field #7] Submitted by: mirkobau
[field #8] Assigned to: None
[field #9] Submitted on: Monday 24/04/06 at 11:34
[field #10] Summary: putty and other terminals
[field #11] Original Submission: putty (puttyssh.org) is an xterm-
compliant terminal emulator with mouse support, and has its own 
terminfo definition file that instructs ncurses how to correctly 
recognize the keys received, but in src/main.c the if.. block does 
tests only on xterm, rxvt, and dtterm terminals.

i used TERM=xterm-color, but when i found the terminfo file putty-
256color i wanted to use it.
After standard compilation everythyng was running well (home/end 
keys, and all others), but mc had no mouse support.

actually i have corrected this problem adding the comparison:

| | strncmp (termvalue, "putty", 5) == 0

in the main.c file, in function init_xterm_support(), but i suggest 
to insert a parameter in a global option file, in wich a sysadmin 
could insert a line such as:

[xterm-compliant]
xterm*
rxvt*
dtterm
putty*
fooxterm*
barxterm*
...

and so on.
thank you for the time spent in reading my opinions.

bye from Mir (it@euro).
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[slavazanko]

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[angel_il]

use TERM=xterm for this