[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.0

[Brian Inglis]

On 2018-07-04 00:40, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Am 04.07.2018 um 01:40 schrieb Andrey Repin:
>> Greetings, Thomas Wolff!
>>
>>> Am 03.07.2018 um 19:56 schrieb Achim Gratz:
>>>> Thomas Wolff writes:
>>>>> ... the assumption is that tmux sends it on purpose, so
>>>>> the blame is on tmux :/
>>>> Not tmux, what you need to blame is the terminfo entry for
>>>> screen-256color again, specifically the cursor_normal variable.  There
>>>> are a bunch of other terminals using the same sequences though.  But I
>>>> need to set the terminal to this exact string or colors inside screen
>>>> (e.g. Emacs) don't work correctly (it falls back to some lower number of
>>>> colors and gets completely illegible with the default theme).  Anyway,
>>>> since I already needed to patch the stupid italics/bold swap in that
>>>> terminfo entry, I just patched out this bit of nonsense as well.
>>> As I cannot reproduce the exact scenario, I don't see yet where/how you
>>> set TERM=screen-256color and when the cursor would switch.
>>> Also I notice that the xterm-256color entry is missing the Co entry
>>> (which is likely what you want), strange.
>> I have this stuff in my .screenrc
>>
>> term "screen-256color"
>> termcapinfo *-256color* 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm'
>> defbce on
>> altscreen on
> Although I see the 34 mode in terminfo, I still cannot reproduce the cursor
> switching behaviour,
> neither with this .screenrc, nor with a .tmux.conf with 'set-option
> default-terminal screen-256color'.
> According to TERM=screen-256color infocmp -1|grep 34
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  cnorm=\E[34h\E[?25h,
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  cvvis=\E[34l,
> the cursor could be turned into an underline when "cursor_normal" mode is
> restored, i.e. when a screen application terminates.
> But which application does actually send the cnorm sequence?

It seems that the effects of a command could conflict with user preferences, and
it is a design decision which alternative should apply, possibly annoying the
user with unexpected results in either case.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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