Re: ms-terminal in terminfo.src

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 12:59:42PM +0000, Mike Griese via Bug-ncurses wrote:
> To Whom It May Concern,
> 
> My name is Mike Griese, I work on the Windows Terminal Team.  It's come to
> our attention that there's a new
> ms-terminal<https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-ms-terminal>
> in terminfo.src, though I'm fairly certain no one in our organization
> submitted that entry.  It looks to me like the entry was submitted in
> response to our announcement of the Windows Terminal.  However there looks to
> be some problems with the listing, particularly in the comment with it.  Is
> there any way we could at very least update the comment to be more accurate?

Actually the comment's accurate.  It says what version was examined,

        # Windows 10 1903
        # Version 0.2.1715.0

and lists several issues which led to omitting various features of
the "xterm-256color" terminal description to give a terminal description
which would work properly with the Windows Terminal.

If someone uses that version of Windows Terminal with TERM=xterm-256color,
I'll be seeing bug reports and negative comments about ncurses.

(If there's a newer released version of Windows Terminal, I can update).

You might find these helpful:

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/tack/
https://invisible-island.net/vttest/

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