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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 05:30:02PM -0400, James Vega wrote:
> > > No error messages then. Now we only need to convince the gnome people
> > > that they aren't fully xterm compatible...
> > 
> > One would assume they know that...
> 
> It'd make sense that they default $TERM to gnome if they cared about the
> fact that they weren't fully xterm compatible.  They've had a comment in
> the code since 2002 about making that configurable instead of
> hard-coding it.  Guess that wasn't revisited.

(xterm itself is configurable ;-)
 
> 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*

The usual reason given is that it's too hard for people to install
a correct terminfo or termcap on other systems.  (I'm using PuTTY at
the moment, having installed the 2kb terminfo file on my shell account).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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