adding new fields to termcap
Mark Horton
mark at cbosgd.UUCP
Wed Feb 1 04:12:26 AEST 1984
Caution - the master capability list uses "km" for the existence of a meta
key, both in terminfo and termcap. (Also, smm (tc=mm) and rmm (tc=mo) turn
the meta key on and off, if the terminal can do this - the Ambassador can.)
Variable name TI TC
has_meta_key, "km" "km" Has a meta key (shift, sets parity bit)
meta_off, "rmm" "mo" Turn off "meta mode"
meta_on, "smm" "mm" Turn on "meta mode" (8th bit)
While I don't really care what goes into termcap, there is upward compatibility
code in curses to handle termcap, and such code will understand km but not MT.
I caution against writing code that uses MT - it will eventually burn you.
The "km" capability is in System V (Release 2 and later) and also will
probably be in 4.3BSD. (No, I can't easily change it to use MT instead, it's
too late. System V Release 2 is out the door.)
Mark
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