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diff --git a/konsole/doc/More/vt100_colorized_termcap.txt b/konsole/doc/More/vt100_colorized_termcap.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0a5470b45 --- /dev/null +++ b/konsole/doc/More/vt100_colorized_termcap.txt @@ -0,0 +1,438 @@ +Article 3992 of comp.terminals: +Path: cs.utk.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!msunews!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!newshost.gu.edu.au!news +From: Tony Nugent <T.Nugent@sct.gu.edu.au> +Newsgroups: comp.terminals +Subject: (howto) Set up a custom (colour) vt term +Date: 30 Apr 1995 06:35:49 GMT +Organization: Griffith University Brisbane Queensland Australia +Lines: 371 +Message-ID: <3nvb45$2kl@griffin.itc.gu.edu.au> +Reply-To: T.Nugent@sct.gu.edu.au +NNTP-Posting-Host: kraken.itc.gu.edu.au +Summary: How to set up a customised term entry +Keywords: vt100 vt102 vt220 ansi colour terminfo termcap term + +G'day all! + +Here is something that I wrote a little while ago (with some more +recent changes) for someone who asked me how to set up a +customised TERMINFO and TERMCAP entry. + +I've never seen this in any FAQ, and I thought that others might +be interested in this too, so I've posted it. It took me *ages* +and lots of trial and error to figure out how to do this +properly, but the process is actually quite simple once you have +the man pages figured out :) + +I would appreciate any comments, corrections or suggestions to +this... I'm posting it here into comp.terminals as a "beta" +document as I'm sure that this could be refined some more. + +========8<----insert-crowbar-here------------------------------ + +I presume that you understand the basics of ansi and vt-term +escape sequences. + +I use a customised vt220 term to get colours instead of boring +black and white text on my pc screen when I'm logged into my +account over a modem. My comms program is emulating vt100/220 +with my screen in 50 line mode (49 lines + one for my comms +program's status line). + +The system here with my account is a Sparc running Solaris 2.3, +SunOS 5.3 - but this also works under SGI IRIX and SunOS 4.3.1 +(remote vt-term login). I use tcsh as my default login shell +(I'll eventually try out ksh once I have some time :-) + +Here is my customised termcap entry, produced by the "infocmp -1" +command... + +========8<-----------cut-here------------>8==================== +# Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /home/tnugent/.terminfo/v/vt220 +vt220|vt-220|dec colour vt220, + xon, + cols#80, lines#49, vt#3, + bel=^G, blink=\E[5m$<2>, bold=\E[1m\E[32;44m$<2>, + clear=\E[;H\E[2J$<50>, cnorm=\E[?7h\E[0;2;1;36m, + cr=\r, csr=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr, cub1=\b, cud1=\n, + cuf1=\E[C$<2>, cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH$<5>, + cuu1=\E[A$<2>, cvvis=\E[?7l, ed=\E[J$<50>, + el=\E[K$<3>, home=\E[H, ht=\t, ind=\n, + is2=\E[1;49r\E[49;1H, kbs=\b, kcub1=\EOD, kcud1=\EOB, + kcuf1=\EOC, kcuu1=\EOA, kf0=\E[29~, kf1=\EOP, + kf10=\E[29~, kf2=\EOQ, kf3=\EOR, kf4=\EOS, kf5=\E[17~, + kf6=\E[18~, kf7=\E[19~, kf8=\E[20~, kf9=\E[21~, + rc=\E8, rev=\E[7m$<2>, ri=\EM$<5>, rmacs=\E(B$<4>, + rmir=\E[4l, rmkx=\E[?1l\E>, rmso=\E[7m\E[0;1;36m$<2>, + rmul=\E[m\E[0;1;36m$<2>, + rs2=\E>\E[?3l\E[?4l\E[?5l\E[?7h\E1;36m\E[?8h, sc=\E7, + sgr0=\E[m\E[1;36m$<2>, smkx=\E[?1h\E=, + smso=\E[m\E[1;33;44m$<2>, smul=\E[4m\E[1;32m$<2>, +========8<-----------cut-here------------>8==================== + +For the explaination of what all this means, see "man terminfo"; +also try "man termcap", but this man page is often not there. + +It's set for a default of 49 lines, but if you only use 24 then +change it in the entry, but I'll explain how to easily reset it +manually with some aliases. + +Otherwise edit this however you like. You'll recognise all the +"ansi" escape sequences up there. Customise the colour ones as +desired, but after trial and error I've found these to be quite +acceptable. Some of the entries might need some more refining, +but this works. Bold, underline, reverse and norm are all in +colour. I've thought about adding an entry for italic (sitm and +ritm), but I haven't got around to this yet. + +I've called this "vt220", but it really isn't (although +compatable). I've found it better to use a "common" name rather +than an unusual one, or else I tend to get "unknown term type, +using dumb terminal settings" complaints when I rlogin or telnet +into other accounts. + +vt220 is defined in /etc/termcap here as: + +de|vt220|DEC VT220 in vt100 emulation mode:\ + :tc=vt100: + +so vt220 actually uses vt100 anyway. They are similar, but vt220 +defines more of the F (function) keys. Other differences are +trivial (and I haven't noticed many from what I've been able to +ascertain from a scattering of "non-authoritative" sources). + +Create a ~/.terminfo/ directory, and save this terminfo entry in +a file called ~/.terminfo/terminfo.src + +Now change to this directory and append the other terminal +entries that you might use onto the end of this file (except for +vt220): + +% echo $term +% infocmp >> terminfo.src +% infocmp vt100 >> terminfo.src +% infocmp xterm >> terminfo.src + +etc. Check it's general format what you find in /etc/termcap to +make sure that it's similar. + +Now do this (in the ~/.terminfo/ directory): + +% setenv TERMINFO ~/.terminfo +% tic + +After running tic (it uses the terminfo.src file), you should see +a new directory called ~/.terminfo/v/ (and perhaps others) which +has the termcap entries compiled from the terminfo.src file. + +Now, do this: + +% set term=vt220 + +You *should* immediately see a change in colour of normally white +(or grey) text to a light bright blue (see "norm=" above). If +you have tcsh as your shell, then try the prompts below to see +some nice bold and reverse colour. Man pages should now also +demostrate this too (especially if you have setenv PAGER "less -s +-I"). Nice change, eh? :-) + +Ok, now to make this change permanent... + +Cut this shell script out, save it in ~/.terminfo/maketc and +"chmod +x maketc" to make it executable: + +========8<-----------cut-here------------>8==================== +#!/bin/sh +# +# Make a TERMCAP entry +# +# Use: +# maketc [termtype] +# +# setenv TERMCAP `maketc [termtype]` +# +# There's probably a better way to do this +# +infocmp -C $1 | \ + sed -e '/^#/d' -e '3,$s/[ ]//g' -e 's/:\\$//' | \ + awk '{printf("%s",$0)}' +echo "" +# NB: that's a Tab and a space in between the []'s! +# Is there a way to get sed to strip out newlines? +========8<-----------cut-here------------>8==================== + +Now try this (using this new term setting): + +% maketc + +Ugly, yes? :) + +Create a ~/.terminfo/TERMCAP.vt220 file by redirecting this output: + +% maketc vt220 > TERMCAP.vt220 + +(alternatively, use " setenv TERMCAP `cat ~/.terminfo/maketc` " +below instead). + +Put the following lines in your ~/.login file, or into another +file (say, ~/.termrc) and source it from ~/.login... + +========8<-----------cut-here------------>8==================== +# Please customise this! +# +if ( ! $?term ) then + set term=vt102 + setenv TERM vt102 +endif +# +switch($term) +# + case 'vt220': + case 'vt102': + stty rows 49 + stty columns 80 + setenv LINES 49 + setenv COLUMNS 80 + echo Assuming \($term with $LINES rows\) + breaksw + case 'vt100': + stty rows 24 + stty columns 80 + setenv LINES 24 + setenv COLUMNS 80 + breaksw + case 'xterm': + eval `/usr/openwin/bin/resize` + stty rows $LINES + stty cols $COLUMNS + default: + breaksw +endsw +# +# Set colour if on a vt100, vt102 or vt220 +# +if ( $TERM == vt102 || $TERM == vt100 || $TERM == vt220 ) then + setenv TERMINFO ~/.terminfo + set term=vt220 + setenv TERM vt220 + setenv TERMCAP `cat ${TERMINFO}/TERMCAP.vt220` + # setenv TERMCAP `~/.terminfo/maketc` +endif +# +# Set variables: NORM BOLD OFFBOLD ULINE OFFULINE REV +# +setenv NORM `tput cnorm` +setenv REV `tput rev` +setenv BOLD `tput smso` +setenv OFFBOLD `tput smso` +setenv ULINE `tput smul` +setenv OFFUL `tput rmul` +# +echo "" +echo "${BOLD}TERMINFO is now: $NORM$TERMINFO" +echo "${BOLD}TERMCAP is now: $NORM" +echo "$TERMCAP" +echo "" +# +echo -n "${ULINE}"\$TERM"$NORM is $BOLD $TERM $NORM and " +echo "${ULINE}"\$term"$NORM is $BOLD $term ${NORM}" +echo -n "$BOLD $LINES $NORM ${ULINE}rows${NORM} " +echo "$BOLD $COLUMNS $NORM ${ULINE}columns${NORM}" +echo "" +# +echo -n "${REV}reverse${NORM} " +echo -n "${BOLD}bold${NORM} " +echo -n "${ULINE}underline${OFFUL} " +echo "$NORM" +echo -n "${REV}${BOLD} reverse-bold ${NORM} " +echo -n "${REV}${ULINE} reverse-underline ${NORM} " +echo -n "${BOLD}${ULINE} bold-underline ${NORM} " +echo -n "${REV}${BOLD}${ULINE} reverse-bold-underline ${NORM} " +echo "" +# +echo -n tset: +/usr/ucb/tset -I -Q - +# +========8<-----------cut-here------------>8==================== + +It's a bit overdone, but it will show you what's going on. +Warnings.... on some unix'es, stty does not have "rows" or +"columns" options. And if you ever use those global variables +for anything, enclose the variables in quotes like I have above. + +Next time you log in (with csh or tcsh), ~/.login is sourced +(after ~/.cshrc) and you will automatically have this customised +colour terminal enabled. + +To make switching term very easy, I use a few aliases. I have +the following in a ~/.alias file that I source from ~/.cshrc... + +========8<-----------cut-here------------>8==================== +# ~/.alias +# sourced from ~/.cshrc +#... +#... +# +#-------- Terminal setup ------------ +# +a cls 'clear' +a seterm 'setenv TERM \!:1 ; set term=\!:1' +a vt102 'unsetenv TERMINFO ; unsetenv TERMCAP ; seterm vt102' +a vt220 'colour' +a colour 'setenv TERMINFO ~/.terminfo ; \ + setenv TERMCAP `cat ${TERMINFO}/TERMCAP` ; seterm vt220' +a rows 'stty rows \!:1 ; setenv LINES \!:1 ; cols 80' +a cols 'stty columns \!:1 ; setenv COLUMNS \!:1 ' +a setsize 'rows \!:1 ; echo $LINES line mode' +a 49 'setsize 49' +a 50 '49' +a 24 'setsize 24' +a 25 '24' +# +a vtn 'echo -n "^[[m^[(B^[)0^O^[[?5l^[7^[[r^[8"' +# ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ +# Esc Esc Esc Ctrl-O EscEsc Esc +# If the vtn alias doesn't work correctly, then try this: +# a vtn 'echo "X[mX(BX)0OX[?5lX7X[rX8" | tr '\''XO'\'' '\''\033\017'\''' +# +# +#... other aliases ... +========8<-----------cut-here------------>8==================== + +The vtn alias has been piped through cat -v to make the control +codes look like their two-character representation. Edit the +echo'ed string so that the ^[ characters are real escape +characters and ^O is a control-O. Or comment out that line and +use the one below it that uses the tr command. This alias is +very, VERY handy for resetting a vt100 style screen if it gets +screwed up with an accidental character set sequence (see any +vt100 term escape code reference). + +If you want to see some interesting colourful prompts and you use +tcsh, then try sourcing this: + +========8<-----------cut-here------------>8==================== +# Primary tcsh command prompt +# +# simple looking one +# set prompt='$S%?%s %B%/-%b%U%h%u-%U%#%u%L' +# +# set prompt='%S%l%s|%U%?%u[%B%t%b]%S%~%s-%B%h%b-%U%#%u%L' +# set prompt='%u%s%b[%U%m%u|%U%~%u][%S%t%s][%B%h%b][%S%?%s]%U-%#%u%L' +# set prompt='%B%b[%S%?%s][%S%t%s][%B%h%b][%U%m%u|%U%~%u]%U-%#%u%L' + set prompt='%B%b[%S%?%s][%U%t%u][%S%m%s|%S%~%s][%B%h%b]%U-%#%u%L' +# +# prompt2 +# Used wherever normal csh prompts with a question mark. +# +# set prompt2='%B%R?>%b ' + set prompt2='%B%R%b%S?%s%L' +# +# prompt3 +# Used when displaying the corrected command line when automatic +# spelling correction is in effect. +# +# set prompt3='CORRECT>%R (y|n|e)?' +# set prompt3='%BCORRECT%b%S>%s%R (%By%b|%Bn%b|%Be%b)%S?%s%L' + set prompt3='%{[41;33;5m%}CORRECT%S>%s%R (%By%b|%Bn%b|%Be%b)%S?%s%L' +========8<-----------cut-here------------>8==================== + +Note how the red colour is manually put into prompt3. It's +possible to put colour sequences into the prompts of all the +common shells (check its man page). + +For more info check out: + +1. The man pages for: + terminfo, (termcap), stty, tput, infocmp, captoinfo, tic + (and the man pages in the "see also" sections). + +2. The file /etc/termcap + +3. The comp.terminals ftp archive site: + cs.utk.edu :: /pub/shuford/terminal/ + You should be able to find at least one file there that + explains all the vt100 control sequences. + +4. I've got a file with the vt102 and ansi escape sequences in it. + If you want a copy, just let me know. + +5. I've never seen it, but for a color xterm check this out: + X11R5 and X11R6 versions: + ftp.x.org /R5contrib/color_xterm.tar.Z + ftp.x.org /contrib/utilities/color-xterm-R6-patch.README + ftp.x.org /contrib/utilities/color-xterm-R6pl5-patch.gz + ftp.x.org /contrib/utilities/colour_xterm.tar.gz + +Enjoy! + +Tony +T.Nugent@sct.gu.edu.au +04/23/95 +========8<----insert-crowbar-here------------------------------ + +All comments very much appreciated. + +Cheers +Tony + MMM \|/ www __^__ + (o o) @ @ (o o) /(o o)\ + -.ooO-(_)-Ooo.-+-.oOO-(_)-OOo.-+-.oOO--(_)--OOo.-+-.oOO==(_)==OOo.-----+ + | Tony Nugent |-| Griffith University T.Nugent@sct.gu.edu.au |--. + | __'!`__ | | Brisbane, Queensland tnugent@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au | | + | (o o) | | Australia | | + `-ooO---(=)---Ooo-' `--------------------------------------------------' | + `------------------' `--------------------------------------------------' + + +Article 3993 of comp.terminals: +Path: cs.utk.edu!gatech!swrinde!hookup!news.moneng.mei.com!uwm.edu!msunews!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!newshost.gu.edu.au!news +From: Tony Nugent <T.Nugent@sct.gu.edu.au> +Newsgroups: comp.terminals +Subject: Re: (howto) Set up a custom (colour) vt term +Date: 30 Apr 1995 07:17:03 GMT +Organization: Griffith University Brisbane Queensland Australia +Lines: 35 +Message-ID: <3nvdhf$36j@griffin.itc.gu.edu.au> +References: <3nvb45$2kl@griffin.itc.gu.edu.au> +Reply-To: T.Nugent@sct.gu.edu.au +NNTP-Posting-Host: kraken.itc.gu.edu.au +Keywords: vt100 vt102 vt220 ansi colour terminfo termcap term + +Tony Nugent <T.Nugent@sct.gu.edu.au> writes: + +Sorry about this: + +[munch] + +>To make switching term very easy, I use a few aliases. I have +>the following in a ~/.alias file that I source from ~/.cshrc... + +>========8<-----------cut-here------------>8==================== +># ~/.alias +># sourced from ~/.cshrc +>#... + +alias a 'alias' + +>#... +># +>#-------- Terminal setup ------------ +># +>a cls 'clear' +>a seterm 'setenv TERM \!:1 ; set term=\!:1' + +[munch] + +I forgot to mention that I have the alias command aliased to "a". + +Cheers +Tony + /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~\ + | Tony Nugent Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia| _ | + | Email: T.Nugent@sct.gu.edu.au tnugent@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au | @|| + \__________________________________________________________________\_/| + / Pull here for the full .sig or use finger on the second address / + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + + |