On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 05:12:48PM +0400, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote: > As you have probably noticed, I have applied this patch. I have also > modified lftp_TERMINFO macro to use AC_SEARCH_LIBS. > > Now I wonder why screen and xterm terminfo don't provide tsl and fsl > capabilities (who don't know: it is to_status_line and from_status_line)?
Screen upstream said that the problem is that if tsl/fsl is provided, some apps move data to the statusline (eg. display it there and no longer display it on the main screen), and that if screen provides those caps, it may not actually be able to honor it (ie. 1: if the terminal actually attached doesn't have it, it can't modify terminfo at runtime, and 2: if it does this on the first attach, a terminal that doesn't really have tsl/fsl may attach later.) Personally, I disagree (the only app I know that has that particular behavior is Screen itself), but the best I could do was get him to add a screen-s terminal entry. As for xterm/rxvt, I'm not sure; I havn't tried getting it added yet. -- Glenn Maynard
