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Re: -2 in numeric and string capabilities
From: |
Florian Weimer |
Subject: |
Re: -2 in numeric and string capabilities |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:01:51 +0200 |
* Thomas Dickey:
>> I see it in Debian's ncurses-term package (version
>> 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2). It occurs for the numeric capability 15
>> (no_color_video, I think) in the xterm-xf86-v32 terminal description,
>
> You're referring to a cancelled capability, which infocmp shows as
>
> ncv@,
Yes. It's not clear to me whether this is supposed to be a
source-only feature, given that term(5) does not provide a way to
represent it in the binary (and explicitly says that -2 is not valid
in these places, although these values occur in practice).
Does this clarify my concerns?