Re: PATCH: unnecessary(?) sleep in reset program

[Jesse Luehrs]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 06:58:26AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 11:13:03AM -0500, Jesse Luehrs wrote:
> > The reset command includes a 1 second sleep that I don't really
> > understand the purpose of. The only explanation is a comment saying
> 
> thanks, but I already decided to not do this last year.

Out of curiosity, why did you make this decision? Shouldn't we be fairly
sure that a terminal type of xterm or screen or things like that will
never involve a hardware reset?

> You can do what you intend using
> 
>       tput reset
> 
> You might find the (up-to-date) manual pages helpful:
> 
>       http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/tput.1.html
>       http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/tset.1.html

Thanks. Would it maybe be reasonable for the ncurses build process to
install reset as a symlink to tput instead of tset?

-doy