Re: SetEdit in Linux

[salvador <sal...@in...>]

"C. W. Young" wrote:

> I tried 0.4.51 yesterday.  This was unsuccessful.  In a terminal, garbage
> was printed on the screen when I clicked the mouse.  In Konsole, the
> function keys worked improperly.

Most probably due to wrong terminal descriptions.

> I am back to 0.4.41 in the gnome terminal.  There are some problems:
>
> 1.  The color palette option is missing.

Only Linux terminals support it and X terminals aren't Linux terminals.
The sequences to do it are specific to TERM=Linux

>  2.  ^PageUp and ^PageDown only move one page.

That's a limitation of all UNIX terminals. The System V terminfo database can't define
those keys (and a lot more).
Also: most UNIX terminals are unable to differenciate it.

>  3.  I am unable to select text.

You mean using shift+arrows, no? Is the same as 2.
Use ^k-b and ^k-k

> I continue to use this editor because it is still preferable to
> any alternative.  I look forward to your new release.

I insist: currently the only way to get a tolerable behavior is using *Eterm* and with
my patches. It is available in the setedit site at Source Forge (source code and .deb
binaries for Potato). Most X terminals are just missconfigured and limited to what the
System V people thinks is enough for a UNIX terminal (which is really far from what we
want).
Even with that there are important limitations, as an example: the mouse doesn't
report movements, just button press/release. It is a little bit annoying. Another
limitation is in the available characters, some ISO-8859-1 accents are missing to let
space for the DEC frames (used to emulate the IBM frames).
The only way to solve these limitations is with the native X version.
I have a Turbo Vision at home that can do it, but it will be released *after* the next
stable release of the editor. This Turbo Vision won't be stable so I can't mix a
stable editor with an unstable Turbo Vision.

SET

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