Bug#1053963: RFS: termpaint/0.3.0-3 [RC] -- low level terminal access - headers

[Martin Hostettler <textshell@uchuujin.de>]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 06:51:51AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 
> Likewise, it uses xterm's documentation (and source code) extensively
> (such as in termquery.cpp) without mentioning the source of the information.

Yes, termquery.cpp is a testing helper shipped in the source that has the
need to name modes.

I mean where else would one get names for those than the only contemporary
documentation of those things. Which is the xterm documentation.

Yes, i should not have assumed that it's totally obvious to anyone in the
space that those things are either from some floating around DEC manuals or
from ctlseqs.

I'm happy to fix that with a link back to your site, as it really is one of
the best sources.

But that files is not even linked into the library so it's a bit of a
tanget wrt termpaint itself.

For the rest, i don't think there is a lot that is similar to xterm except
as technically needed (e.g. the details of the 256 color color map)

But in the end this whole project is based on careful study¹ (and
redocumentation) of a lot of terminal implementations including xterm,
so some things might have stuck in my mind. I'm happy to look into any
other places where you feel that attribution is missing.

But this is all quite of topic here, so let's take that to private mail or
to the upstream issue tracker.

Regards, 
 - Martin


¹ which even lead me to report some improvments to xterm some years ago.