From: schaefer@z-code.ncd.com (Barton E. Schaefer)
To: Eskandar Ensafi <esky@CS.UCLA.EDU>,
zsh-users@math.gatech.edu, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Hey, who did this ?!?!
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:50:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <960216105049.ZM25607@zyrcon.z-code.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Eskandar Ensafi <esky@CS.UCLA.EDU> "Hey, who did this ?!?!" (Feb 16, 10:34am)
On Feb 16, 10:34am, Eskandar Ensafi wrote:
} Subject: Hey, who did this ?!?!
}
} A while back, we made certain corrections to zsh so that termcap entries
} are correctly intitialized in non-interactive shells, in order to allow
} print -P '%B...%b' sequences and similar text attributes/cursor motion
} commands to work properly in shell scripts.
}
} I just noticed that in zsh 2.6 beta 12 and 13, this feature has been turned
} off again -- pehaps by accident, perhaps due to execessive, unwarranted
} concerns for efficiency.
I believe the reason was because on some systems, scripts that don't
have a controlling terminal (or that are in the background) cause some
kind of an error, or get stopped by SIGTTIN, when initializing termcap.
Am I remembering wrong?
--
Bart Schaefer Vice President, Technology, Z-Code Software
schaefer@z-code.com Division of NCD Software Corporation
http://www.well.com/www/barts
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-02-16 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-02-16 18:34 Eskandar Ensafi
1996-02-16 18:50 ` Barton E. Schaefer [this message]
1996-02-16 19:22 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-02-16 19:42 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
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