HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked
Richard Coleman
richardcoleman at mindspring.com
Sat Nov 22 19:10:49 PST 2003
M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : I agree. termcap.small is amazingly uncurrent. However, perhaps some
> : merging and reducing is in order. Why is a full cons25 or vt2xx needed?
> : vi only needs a few capabilities. I think we mostly use copies of large
> : termcap entries because copying the whole things is easier.
>
> You have a good point. My termcap was done so that we could run a
> number of applications...
>
> Grepping seems unsatisfying to find out which keys are used. Do you
> have a list?
>
> Warner
Is the extra maintenance worth it to save a few hundred bytes?
It might even make sense to dynamically generate termcap.tiny at build
time by pulling out the entries in /etc/termcap for a selected list of
terminal types. Then, no extra maintenance would be needed.
Richard Coleman
richardcoleman at mindspring.com
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