ANN: xterm patch #272

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Thierry Reding wrote:

> * Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>                             Patch #272 - 2011/08/24
>>
>>      * document limitation of Gtk in connection with xterm's -into option,
>>        in the manpage (Ubuntu #806969).
>>      * improve  -into  by  checking  for  and using the size of the window
>>        within which xterm is embedded, overriding other clues.
>>      * modify  logic  for  localeFilter  resource to allow that to include
>>        command-line options of luit.
>>      * improve  -into  by  checking  for  invalid  window-id, and allowing
>>        hexadecimal/decimal/octal values.
>>      * improve  keepSelection,  adding  the case where the highlighting is
>>        cleared, overlooked in patch #230 (patch by Marco Peereboom).
>>      * improve  command-line  parsing  to  make  abbreviate  options  work
>>        consistently   across  xterm-specific  versus  standard  X  toolkit
>>        options, and report cases where an abbreviated option happens to be
>>        ambiguous.  In  particular,  -d  now  works  as an abbreviation for
>>        -display.
>>      * fix  regression  in  command-line  parsing introduced in patch #271
>>        changes for Debian #629358, (Debian #637910).
>>      * split-out   new   termcap/terminfo  building  block  xterm+kbs  for
>>        configurability.
>>      * modify   terminfo   file   to   reflect   changes  in  ncurses  for
>>        xterm-16color and xterm-256color.
>>      * modify  minstall.sh,  etc.,  to  reflect the default default class,
>>        $TERM and decTerminalID values.
>>      * reword  resize manpage to reflect the fact that $TERMCAP is not set
>>        on all systems (patch by Alan Coopersmith).
>>      * work  around combined Xaw6/Xaw7 package in DragonFlyBSD which omits
>>        the usual symbolic link to the preferred library name.
>>      * further  improve build-fix for termcap systems by checking for some
>>        which  are  only  partial  implementations,  e.g.,  termcap 2.08 in
>>        CentOS 5.2
>
> I need the attached patch to build out-of-tree.

thanks (I keep overlooking that - usually build in-tree).

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