Re: [Crash-utility] less(1) TERM requirements; man page update [was Re: crash CPU bound waiting for user response]
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
| From: Dave Anderson <anderson(a)redhat.com>
|
| Chip Coldwell wrote:
| > On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
| > >==> It does not say in what way the terminal is not fully
| > >functional. That seems like a bug.
| > Well, the issue is that the emacs terminal emulator does not fully
| > support the [n]curses escape sequences needed to position the cursor
| > for your pager (e.g. less).
The whole point of termcap/terminfo is to tame the whacky world of
terminal diversity. There is nothing "wrong" with a terminal that
does not have features needed by less(1).
Fair enough, but then this is a bug in less: it is refusing to run on
a terminal that has nothing "wrong" with it.
Chip
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