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Article #1380tcsh $sl and $el variables (was Re: Title bar flicker fix for XTerm..)
From: Jeff Kellem
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 1990 04:02
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 1990 04:02
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In article <rhoward.654984151@juliet>
rhoward@msd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:
> Date: 3 Oct 90 20:02:31 GMT
>
> However the tcsh feature, $sl and $el (for status lines), is not set
> by tcsh on my system.
>
> Sun Sparc
> SunOS 4.1
> tcsh version tcsh 5.19 (Cornell) 9/26/90 Patch level 1
> Running xterm under
> X11r4 (PL 18).
>
> When tcsh starts it sets term, TERM, TERMCAP and a lot of others but
> sl and el are left blank. Am I doing something wrong? (The value
> of TERMCAP shows that the xterm definition contains strings for ts and
> fs.)
>
> Has anyone had success using this under tcsh?
Back in March, I sent a patch to Paul Placeway that would set the sl and el
variable properly. There was a mistake in the source; tcsh was looking up
termcap capabilities named sl and el, instead of ts and fs. Oops...
The fix is included below. This was made from tcsh 5.18 (BBN) 2/20/90 pl 0.
Enjoy...
-jeff
Jeff Kellem
Internet: composer@chem.bu.edu
===CUT HERE===diff -c ed.screen.c{-orig,}===
*** ed.screen.c-orig Tue Feb 20 14:41:09 1990
--- ed.screen.c Wed Mar 21 00:11:47 1990
***************
*** 609,616 ****
so = Mytgetstr("so", &area); /* inverse video on */
se = Mytgetstr("se", &area); /* inverse video off */
! sl = Mytgetstr("sl", &area);
! el = Mytgetstr("el", &area);
set("el",el); /* So it can be used in cwdcmd alias */
set("sl",sl);
--- 609,616 ----
so = Mytgetstr("so", &area); /* inverse video on */
se = Mytgetstr("se", &area); /* inverse video off */
! sl = Mytgetstr("ts", &area);
! el = Mytgetstr("fs", &area);
set("el",el); /* So it can be used in cwdcmd alias */
set("sl",sl);
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bu.edu!nntp-read!composer From: composer@chem.bu.edu (Jeff Kellem) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.questions Subject: tcsh $sl and $el variables (was Re: Title bar flicker fix for XTerm..) Summary: fix to make $sl/$el variables work in tcsh 5.18 Message-ID: <COMPOSER.90Oct8000228@chem.bu.edu> Date: 8 Oct 90 04:02:28 GMT References: <6459@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <28434@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1990Oct3.011511.2263@mlb.semi.harris.com> <1990Oct2.232740@Pkg.Mcc.COM> <BRISTER.90Oct3111036@westworld.decwrl.dec.com> <rhoward.654984151@juliet> Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Reply-To: composer@chem.bu.edu Followup-To: comp.unix.shell Organization: Boston University Chemistry Department Lines: 55 In-reply-to: rhoward@msd.gatech.edu's message of 3 Oct 90 20:02:31 GMT