[BusyBox] [PATCH] New comm applet

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:58:51PM +0200, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
>Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> writes:
>> On Saturday 02 April 2005 10:13 pm, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
>>> >> > And yes, less is cool.  I'd personally prefer one that didn't mess

I also would be keen on having a proper working less.
A usual habit of mine is to define LESS='-M -I' and have that exported
throughout the system. If that works, with a builtin less which
understands regex, searching and highlighting, i'm more than happy :)

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>>> > There is no NEED for terminfo anymore, it's just outputting different
>>> > emulations that are then intrerpreted by software.
>>>
>>> Would you please reread this sentence very carefully:
>>>
>>> 	The last time I was forced to use a genuine text terminal that
>>> 	did not support ANSI escape sequences was about two years ago.
>>
>> Are you saying you were trying to use recent general-purpose Linux software on 
>> that system?
>
>FreeBSD, actually, but this doesn't really matter: Just because newer
>text terminals (which are still sold) are probably all ANSI compliant,
>older ones, which are certainly still in use, insofar they still work,
>may not. To not support non-ANSI terminals because the increase in
>code size is considered to be not worth it, given the benefit to a
>supposedly very small user base only is valid point. To claim that
>'very small' is the same as 'nobody' isn't.

There are (purely) ANSI compliant compilers, too. On some systems, these
appear to be the only available compilers, fwiw. OT herein, though.
Anyway.

Sometime ago, i was/felt forced to go through the v{c,t-{dumb,xterm}}
emulation provided to userspace. A whole lot of apps will not work if
you -- on whichever layer you are or feel obliged to -- do not provide
what they expect.

In the context of busybox, it would be doable to fixup all those, if
they can't cope. But personally, i won't to go through all the
remainig ones. YMMV.

friendly,
Bernhard