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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: termcap "sg#0" capability
Message-ID: <5187@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 17:56:34 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  4 17:56:34 1987
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As quoted from <6625@brl-smoke.ARPA> by gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ):
+---------------
| The developer is wrong.  I know that some people have tried to give
| special semantics to sg#0 and ug#0, but it has never to my knowledge
| been adopted in the official termcap (or terminfo) documentation,
| and when I updated TERMCAP(5) for 4.3BSD I continued to uphold this
| tradition.
| 
| If the developer can explain what he thinks the special semantics
| should be, have him contact me.
+---------------

Judging from messages on Info-GNU-Emacs, it's none other than RMS; his idea
of sg#0 usage is that leaving out the sg attribute means that the cursor can
move in standout mode.  In other words, he uses sg as an inverse ms (terminfo
"msgr") attribute.

Does RMS ever read man pages, for goodness' sake?
-- 
Brandon S. Allbery		     necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu
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