Re: Bug#801654: dircolors: Please support colors on TERM=screen.xterm-256color

[Pádraig Brady]

On 15/10/15 20:34, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> -TERM con132x25
>>> -TERM con132x30
>>> -TERM con132x43
>>> -TERM con132x60
>>> -TERM con80x25
>>> -TERM con80x28
>>> -TERM con80x30
>>> -TERM con80x43
>>> -TERM con80x50
>>> -TERM con80x60
>>> +TERM con[0-9]*x[0-9]*
>>
>> Going to tighten that to:
>>
>> +TERM con80x??
>> +TERM con132x??
> 
> I don't know.  But selecting just 80 and 132 width terminals
> specifically doesn't feel as good as the originally suggested wildcard
> matching any size of terminal.  It doesn't feel right.
> 
> Is there a reason you are not wanting to make it a generic size?
> 
>> I've not heard any objections about this,
>> so will apply later.
> 
> I think the original wildcard is fine.

OK cool. These are old linux console types I think,
and so probably never used now in any case.
They're not in the terminfo database at least.
I'll restore to the orig single entry.

cheers,
Pádraig.

p.s I could tighten with a single entry with FNM_EXTMATCH,
but it's not worth complicating this feature with
that GNU specific extension.
BTW I just sent an update for the fnmatch man page for FNM_EXTMATCH:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-man&m=144489952506596&w=2