Subject: Re: Bug#634956: ncurses-base: xterm should have hs, tsl and fsl (in other word: use status line for window title)

From: Thomas Dickey <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:39:26 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Tanguy Ortolo wrote:

> Thomas Dickey, 2011-07-21 05:44 UTC-0400:
>> The status capabilities are documented (and standardized) to use a
>> parameter (the starting column at which to begin writing).
>
> Are they? The terminfo manpage only indicates that tsl is to go to the
> status line, first column. Then the status line may allow to use control
> sequence; this is indicated by the capability eslok.

The "#1" means that its a parameter, and (tersely) that it's the column.
Not ambiguous.

> Then there is also the wsl capability that indicates the status line
> width if it is different from the terminal width: for rxvt-unicode it is
> set to -1, which I guess is to indicate that it has a free width.

If rxvt-unicode had documentation, we might discuss it...

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