[Crash-utility] less(1) TERM requirements; man page update [was Re: crash CPU bound waiting for user response]

[Chip Coldwell]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

> | From: Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com>
> | 
> | Chip Coldwell wrote:
> | > On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> 
> | > >==> It does not say in what way the terminal is not fully
> | > >functional.  That seems like a bug.
> 
> | > Well, the issue is that the emacs terminal emulator does not fully
> | > support the [n]curses escape sequences needed to position the cursor
> | > for your pager (e.g. less).
> 
> The whole point of termcap/terminfo is to tame the whacky world of
> terminal diversity.  There is nothing "wrong" with a terminal that
> does not have features needed by less(1).

Fair enough, but then this is a bug in less: it is refusing to run on
a terminal that has nothing "wrong" with it.

Chip

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Charles M. "Chip" Coldwell
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