Bug 247447

Summary:

Add blink/dim/invis attributes to base termcap(5)

Product:

Base System

Reporter:

Jan Beich <jbeich>

Component:

conf

Assignee:

freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>

Status:

New ---

Severity:

Affects Only Me

CC:

dickey, grahamperrin

Priority:

---

Keywords:

patch

Version:

CURRENT

Hardware:

Any

OS:

Any

Attachments:

Description	Flags
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Description Jan Beich freebsd_committer

2020-06-20 19:52:21 UTC

Created attachment 215828 [details]
v1

Some ports support dim colors on terminal but base termcap(5) doesn't define "mh" for TERM=xterm. Let's port it from terminfo(5) along with some other attributes.

- editors/emacs (-nw)
- editors/ne
- shells/fish
- sysutils/smenu

https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=enter_dim_mode

Test case:
$ pkg install xterm
$ xterm
$ echo `tput mb`blink`tput me` `tput mh`dim`tput me` `tput mk`invis`tput me`

$ pkg install tmux
$ tmux
$ tmux server-info | fgrep -e blink -e dim -e invis
$ echo `tput mb`blink`tput me` `tput mh`dim`tput me` `tput mk`invis`tput me`

Comment 1 Jan Beich freebsd_committer

2020-06-20 20:14:30 UTC

I'd like to *avoid* a new entry a la xterm-clear. Each of the new caps is trivial to disable e.g.,

  $ export TERMCAP="${TERM}:mb@:mh@:mk@:tc=${TERM}:"
  $ echo `tput mb`blink`tput me` `tput mh`dim`tput me` `tput mk`invis`tput me`