[Gllug] Tab-complete and cursor keys in SSH sessions?

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Mon Sep 28 20:55:53 UTC 2009


On 27 Sep 2009, Tethys told this:
> To be fair, tic is terminfo compiler, which makes sense. Admittedly,
> infocmp is a little more obscure, but its primary purpose is to
> compare terminfo entries[1], and in that light, it makes sense. The
> fact that if you only supply one terminal type, it has nothing to
> compare to and thus prints out the terminal description is almost
> accidental.

But, as you point out, nobody ever uses it for anything other than
printing out a terminfo entry. This is as useful a piece of naming as
'cat' (because *of course* what everyone would use cat for would be to
concatenate files, because you do that *all the time*, far more often
than you, say, view them.)
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