Re: rxvt vs xterm keybindings

[Jan D.]

I wrote:

> IMHO, if rxvt has capabilities not in xterm, it should not set TERM  
> to xterm in the first place.  If you set TERM to xterm you should  
> not expect programs to jump through hops trying to figure out if it  
> really is an xterm or rather something else.  I would just say that  
> anybody expecting to get rxvt.el loaded
> when TERM is set to xterm has a misconfigured system and leave it  
> at that.  But that is just IMHO.


And BTW, the argument that there is no rxvt termcap/terminfo  
description could be solved by rxvt itself.  Rxvt could easily write  
such a description to a file and set the TERMCAP and TERMINO  
environment variables accordingly.  Or the user can do it if rxvt won't.

    Jan D.