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bug#62265: Underline does not work in Terminal Emacs
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#62265: Underline does not work in Terminal Emacs |
Date: |
Sun, 16 Apr 2023 09:22:53 +0300 |
> Cc: jporterbugs@gmail.com, 62265@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 14:24:19 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> > From: Mohsin Kaleem <mohkale@kisara.moe>
> > Cc: jporterbugs@gmail.com, 62265@debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 11:51:45 +0000
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >
> > > However, what about the non-TERMINFO branch? Do termcap databases
> > > support this capability and tigetstr? I wonder whether we should do
> > > one of the following:
> > >
> > > . support "smxx" only when TERMINFO is defined
> > > . support "smxx" regardless of whether TERMINFO is defined
> >
> > The latter wouldn't be possible for those using terminfo because of the
> > issue I described before. I'm okay with the former approach but I
> > imagine the author of the original TTY strikethrough patch was building
> > Emacs without terminfo and they described the patch as working for them
> > so I'd have to conclude termcap does support this (in a non-compliant
> > ncurses way). Switching to the former approach might break their
> > workflow since if they build without terminfo they'd lose strikethrough
> > altogether. I'm happy to test whether this would be the case but not
> > sure how to. The difference between termcap and terminfo seem kinda
> > arbitrary to me and I can't find any documentation describing the exact
> > difference (except this sort of 2 letter restriction in termcap
> > extensions).
>
> If your hypothesis is correct, I'm fine with leaving the non-TERMINFO
> branch using tgetstr. But is it indeed correct?
>
> Let's ask the author of that strikethrough patch. Mike, can you tell
> whether you tested the patch on a system with or without terminfo?
> And what, if anything, can you tell about using tgetstr for
> capabilities whose names are more than 2 characters -- is that
> supported with the curses library you were using at the time?
No further comments, so I've installed a fix for this along the lines
we discussed, and I'm closing this bug.
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