Re: some questions

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Alexey Toptygin wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > > Also, what are the userX capabilities? They seem to be defined quite 
> > > frequently, but what do they do?
> >
> > There's a comment near the top of terminfo.src that documents this.
>
> So you shouldn't rely on these except in GNU ncurses, yes?

yes.

> > > Finally, is there a standard capability name for i.e. setting the xterm 
> > > window title with "\E]0;newtitle^G"?
>
> Since this is a commonly used operation supported on most terminal emulators, 
> why not assign a user-defined capability to this? u5?

not even most (none of the console emulators for instance).

screen has a termcap extension defined for this ("XT", iirc).
you can always define exactly the same extension in ncurses.

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