On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 06:48:19PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Package: ncurses-base
> Version: 6.1+20181013-2
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> terminfo description of screen and variants have:
> 
>   smacs=^N
>   rmacs=^O
> 
> One issue is that these sequences are not recognized by "less -R".

...a wishlist item for "less".

> A workaround would be to change them to:
> 
>   smacs=\E(0
>   rmacs=\E(B
> 
> as in various other terminfo descriptions (e.g., xterm).
> 
> This seems to work even in the Linux consoles (virtual terminals),
> which do not support \E(0 and \E(B, i.e. it appears that GNU Screen

hmm - see "infocmp linux".  We've discussed this before, by the way.

> does the translation for the real terminal.
> 
> Thus I suggest such a change, if there are no drawbacks.
> 
> Note: this was also suggested in
> 
>   https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?23646

not exactly - the last comment there points out that enacs has to be sent.

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