Re: Description of Apple's MacOS X Terminal.app "VT-100" emulator

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 06:24:42PM -0500, Benjamin C. W. Sittler wrote:
> I already ran tack. In fact, I used it extensively while developing this
> terminfo (which I based originally on the one for "vt100".)

ok (I'm checking on the things that I would -- no problem)
 
> > "foo.ti", line 1, terminal 'Apple_Terminal-ascii-m': tsl uses 0 parameters, 
> > expected 1
> 
> This is not an error, the status-line is offscreen and is not
> column-addressable.

grumble (I'm aware that several entries do this, but since I added checks
to tparm and tic last year, I know that tsl "may" have a column parameter).

       to_status_line            tsl    ts   move to status line,
                                             column #1

> This "sgr" attempts to reset attributes before enabling the ones
> specified, hence the leading SGR "0" argument and the SI. Is that not
> correct behavior for sgr? The individual attribute setters (smso, smul,
> rev, blink and bold) don't reset other attributes, since that would make
> them non-mixable. This does have one side-effect: sgr clears all color
> attributes, and gives no way to set them. Is this a bug? If so, the sgr
> entry should be removed from the color variants (Apple_Terminal-ascii and
> Apple_Terminal.)

maybe it's a bug in tic (xterm's sgr also begins with a '0', but I don't
see the warning -- I'll revisit that when I'm debugging: the check is
supposed to just hit some of the possibly incorrect cases, and I did find
some errors with the check, so it's not that bad).
 
> The details were later in my original mail:

I did read that, but didn't associate it properly.
 
>   Terminal.app supports a fixed palette of eight colors using the ANSI
>   foreground and background color-change sequences. However, changing
>   background colors while the bold attribute is enabled causes the wrong
>   background colors to be displayed. For this reason the terminal

I would have thought the ncv value covered this (it says bold, reverse
and standout do not work with color).  ncurses would interpret that as
saying don't send bold/reverse/standout when colors are active on a
given cell.  tack doesn't use that rule, to see if it is working I use
the ncurses 'b' test.

> > > Strict VT-100 emulation mode is not accounted for by these terminal
> > > descriptions, as most users leave it disabled. Mouse cursor position
> > > reporting is not described by these descriptions, but appears to work in
> > > Emacs [use Option-click to position the cursor.] The Terminal.app titlebar
> > > is configurable using the same sequences understood by xterm, and is used
> > > as a status line by these terminal descriptions.
> 
> > if we added kmous=\e[M, would that work for ncurses?
> 
> No, after further research the Option-click hack appears to be a
> disgusting heuristic mess which simulates enough cursor key presses to
> move the cursor from its current position to the requested position.

;-)

> Obviously, this fails under a variety of conditions. We can hope for kmous
> in a future version of Terminal.app, I guess.
> 
> Ben.
> 
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