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cleanup: term.c dead code

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Message #11 received at 1482 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 1482 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1482: cleanup: term.c dead code
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:45:45 -0400

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu> writes:
>
>> These terminal types are not supported by terminfo, so probably they are
>> long dead.  This code can be cleaned up whenever cleanups are allowed.
>>
>>   /* Special handling for certain terminal types known to need it */
>>
>>   if (!strcmp (terminal_type, "supdup"))
>>     {
>>       terminal->memory_below_frame = 1;
>>       tty->Wcm->cm_losewrap = 1;
>>     }
>>   if (!strncmp (terminal_type, "c10", 3)
>>       || !strcmp (terminal_type, "perq"))
>>     {
>
> I think cleaning up this now would be OK, but how do we know that these
> three terminal types aren't supported?  Is there a list somewhere?

/etc/termcap or the terminfo datatbase, none of them has these...

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