git: terminfo: drop repeat-character capability from 'xterm-new' (2)

Matthew Dillon dillon at crater.dragonflybsd.org
Fri Sep 11 10:10:29 PDT 2020


commit d3d72007f7e7e71c2f876de5cff3fcf61e4ae266
Author: Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com>
Date:   Fri Sep 11 09:31:18 2020 -0700

    terminfo: drop repeat-character capability from 'xterm-new' (2)
    
    * Drop all use cases, output is mis-generated in some situations
      (LANG and LC_CTYPE envs both unset, vi (nvi) a file with 0x0000000
      sequences in it).
    
      Frankly, its beyond stupid to even implement ansi sequences that were
      designed for an era of 1200 baud modems.
    
    * Add comment describing why ansi+rep was removed.

Summary of changes:
 contrib/ncurses/misc/terminfo.src | 30 ++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/d3d72007f7e7e71c2f876de5cff3fcf61e4ae266


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