sloane@noscvax.UUCP (05/02/84)
Does anyone out there have a program (C, please) that tests a new
termcap definition? Hopefully it would excercise as many termcap
attributes as possible, and allow one to evaluate whether they
work (by pausing and waiting for a <ret>, for instance) before
going on to the next test sequence.
I am writing termcaps for various terminals, and testing by usage
is not so good - some terminal attributes may not be used very often.
If you have such a monster, or even just a pretty good test program,
please mail it to me, or maybe post it to net.sources???
Thanks...
Gary K. Sloane
c/o Naval Ocean Systems Center
COTD Building 1 Room B205
San Diego, California 92152
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DDD: (619) 225-8401 x391lmc@denelcor.UUCP (05/05/84)
Please post any termcap testers to net.sources; I (and no doubt others, to read all of the "Does anyone have a termcap for ....?) would very much like to have such a thing. -- Lyle McElhaney (hao,brl-bmd,nbires,csu-cs,scgvaxd)!denelcor!lmc
chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (05/07/84)
When did al and dl acquire numeric parameters (as AL and DL)??
With ``pc=<pc>'' you'll get lots of ``<''s for pad characters,
since pad characters are just one ``char''. Of course, with
no padding you shouldn't see any anyway....
We should all switch over to terminfo anyway. (Die termcap die!!
<ahem ... er, sorry>) [Seriously, terminfo seems far superior to
termcap.]
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CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@marylandgwyn@brl-vgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (05/08/84)
I agree that terminfo is superior to termcap. Too bad that 4.?BSD doesn't have it. AL & DL (with numeric parameter) have been supported by Horton for years. I believe that all current termcap-driven implementations of "vi" support them. Is pc= really constrained to one char? Golly, I didn't know that. Let's hear it for all those terminal designers! :-<
chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (05/08/84)
For anyone who cares, 4.1BSD vi does not support ``AL'' and ``DL''
entries in termcaps. (I just checked the source. Look at
/usr/src/cmd/ex/ex_tty.c and find the place where it sets namp to
a list of names to be tgetstr'ed.)
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CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@marylandgwyn@brl-vgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (05/12/84)
I find "vi" is a very good termcap tester. Most other screen-oriented programs I have encountered have not used termcap correctly in some cases. Here is a cute trick for people who are writing termcap-driven programs; include the following dummy terminal type in /etc/termcap and set TERM=debug to see what your program is actually doing: # # Debugging entry -- all printing characters d0|debug|debugging entry:\ :ae=<ae>:AL=<AL%d>:al=<al>:am:as=<as>:bc=<bc>:bt=<bt>:cd=<cd>:\ :ce=<ce>:ch=<ch%d>:cl=<cl>:cm=<cm%d,%d>:co#80:cr=<cr>:cs=<cs%d,%d>:\ :ct=<ct>:cv=<cv%d>:da:db:dc=<dc>:DL=<DL%d>:dl=<dl>:dm=<dm>:DO=<DO%d>:\ :do=<do>:ed=<ed>:ei=<ei>:ff=<ff>:ho=<ho>:ic=<ic>:im=<im>:ip=<ip>:\ :is=<is>:k0=\E0:k1=\E1:kb=\Eb:kd=\Ed:ke=<ke>:kh=\Eh:kl=\El:kn=2:\ :ko=cl,ho,ll:kr=\Er:ks=<ks>:ku=\Eu:l0=ESC0:l1=ESC1:LE=<LE%d>:li#24:\ :ll=<ll>:mb=<mb>:md=<md>:me=<me>:mi:ml=<ml>:mr=<mr>:ms=<ms>:mu=<mu>:\ :nd=<nd>:nl=<nl>:pb#19200:pc=<pc>:pt:rc=<rc>:RI=<RI%d>:rs=<rs>:\ :sc=<sc>:se=<se>:sf=<sf>:so=<so>:sr=<sr>:st=<st>:ta=<ta>:te=<te>:\ :ti=<ti>:uc=<uc>:ue=<ue>:UP=<UP%d>:up=<up>:us=<us>:vb=<vb>:ve=<ve>:\ :vs=<vs>:vt#3: