Re: rxvt vs xterm keybindings

[Jan D.]

>     I do.  It would be impossible for xterm to figure out all  
> varaiables
>     invented by other terminal emulators, such as rxvt, and arrange  
> for
>     them not to be inherited.
>
> It would be easy for xterm to arrange that COLORTERM not be inherited.
>
> There's no reason to refuse to solve a specific real problem just
> because we don't see a way to solve all imaginable similar problems.

Well, just because it is easy does not make it the right thing to  
do.  I am not an xterm developer, but I would question why xterm  
would have to take one specific environment variable it to account,  
invented by another terminal emulator, to solve a potential problem  
in Emacs.  Also, this is not xterm specific, how about the Gnome and  
KDE terminal emulators?  HP at one point also had an X terminal  
emulator.  Should these also be modified to handle this specific  
problem?

    Jan D.