PFC: Anyone got an FPtermcap for OS/X Terminal?

[Bruce Easton]

On 12/8/14, 5:22 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> [..] Either way, I'm back to my original question: Does anyone have an 
> "Xterm" entry for FPtermcap that's tuned specifically for Macintosh 
> access? Cheers, -- jra

Jay - I have tried the iTerm with various settings for text size and 
vertical spacing and it just doesn't look as clean as it does using my 
mac's default Terminal app. And the vertical line and box drawing 
doesn't look very good at all.  So, I've played around a bit and think I 
have one sort of fits-all solution for mac Terminal - at least for use 
with filepro on mac.  I'm not much one for working in color in vim for 
example, but maybe you could try this and shed some light on what you 
still see as an obstacle.  This looks like a lot, but can be done pretty 
quickly.  (First, of course, back up your termcap file! :))

1.  Use this for your linux termcap entry:

linux|Linux Console:\
:al=\E[L:am:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[2J\E[H:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:co#80:\
         :dc=\E[P:dl=\E[M:dn=\E[B:ei=:ho=\E[H:ic=\E[@:im=:li#25:\
         :nd=\E[C:ms:pt:so=\E[7m:se=\E[m:us=\E[4m:ue=\E[m:up=\E[A:\
         :kh=\E[1~:kb=\177:ku=\E[A:kd=\E[B:kl=\E[D:kr=\E[C:eo:\
         :GS=\E[12m:GE=\E[10m:\
         :GV=\263:GH=\304:\
         :PN=\E[5i:PS=\E[4i:\
         :G1=\277:G2=\332:G3=\300:G4=\331:GZ=\376:\
         :GU=\301:GD=\302:GC=\305:GR=\303:GL=\264:RT=^J:\
         :L0=F1:L1=F2:L2=F3:L3=F4:L4=ESC ESC:L5=F5:\
         :L6=Pg Up:L7=Pg Dn:L8=ESC TAB:L9=TAB:LA=Ctrl-O:\
         :LB=F6:LC=Ctrl-L:LD=F7:\
         :LE=F8:LG=Ctrl-X:LH=F9:LY=Ctrl-C:LZ=Enter:\
         :P0=\E[[A:P1=\E[[B:P2=\E[[C:P3=\E[[D:\
         :P4=\E\E:P5=\E[[E:P6=\E[5~:P7=\E[6~:P8=\E^I:P9=^I:\
         :PA=^O:PB=\E[17~:PC=^L:PD=\E[18~:PE=\E[19~:PG=^X:PH=\E[20~:\
         :PJ=\E[21~:LJ=F10:

That should be very close to stock, but note the absence here of "PV".  
That is intentional and the PV will be reserved for a later step.

2.  For the xterm termcap entry use:

xterm|rxvt|XFree86 3.3.x xterm or rxvt 2.x:\
:al=\E[L:am:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[2J\E[H:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:co#80:\
         :dc=\E[P:dl=\E[M:dn=\E[B:ei=:ho=\E[H:ic=\E[@:im=:li#25:\
         :nd=\E[C:ms:pt:so=\E[7m:se=\E[m:us=\E[4m:ue=\E[m:up=\E[A:\
         :kh=\E[1~:kb=\177:ku=\E[A:kd=\E[B:kl=\E[D:kr=\E[C:eo:\
         :GS=\E(0:GE=\E(B:\
         :GV=x:GH=q:G1=k:G2=l:G3=m:G4=j:GZ=:\
         :GU=v:GD=w:GC=n:GR=t:GL=u:RT=^J:\
         :L0=F1:L1=F2:L2=F3:L3=F4:L4=ESC ESC:L5=F5:\
         :L6=Pg Up:L7=Pg Dn:L8=ESC TAB:L9=TAB:LA=Ctrl-O:\
         :LB=F6:LC=Ctrl-L:LD=F7:\
         :LE=F8:LG=Ctrl-X:LH=F9:LY=Ctrl-C:LZ=Enter:\
         :P0=\EOP:P1=\EOQ:P2=\EOR:P3=\EOS:P4=\E\E:P5=\E[15~:\
         :P6=\E[5~:P7=\E[6~:P8=\E^I:P9=^I:\
         :PA=^O:PB=\E[17~:PC=^L:PD=\E[18~:PE=\E[19~:PG=^X:PH=\E[20~:\
         :PJ=\E[21~:LJ=F10:

Again - this should be very close to stock, but note again that there is 
no "PV" and again intentional.  Also - here you'll want to remove 
"xterm-color" from the header.

3. Copy the Linux termcap entry just below itself (all 16 lines) leaving 
a spacer line between the entries.

4.  Change the header of the copied entry's header to be just:

xterm-color|xterm-256color:\

5.  In the copied entry, on the line that starts with ":kh", add "PV:" 
before the backslash so it reads:

:kh=\E[1~:kb=\177:ku=\E[A:kd=\E[B:kl=\E[D:kr=\E[C:eo:PV:\

That's it for the filepro termcap.

Now in mac's Terminal, you'll want to always have set:

a. columns 80, rows 25
b. delete sends Control-H checked
c. Text encoding: Latin-US (DOS)

See this screen-shot for more:

www.stn.com/macshots/advancedtab.png

(but I think those other settings are stock)

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THEN, for connecting to Unix boxes or Linuxes boxes where you want to 
work in monochrome, simply set the "Declare terminal as:" to "xterm" 
saving each of those Terminal profiles separately.  For the color 
Terminal profiles for Linux, set it to "xterm-256color".

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Here are some screen shots working in the color mode on Linux under such 
a scenario:

www.stn.com/macshots/sample1.png
www.stn.com/macshots/sample2.png  <--Def Screen's color-picker screen in 
fp 5.7
www.stn.com/macshots/sample3.png
www.stn.com/macshots/sample4.png  <--vim on the termcap file

Function keys work fine.  The only thing I can think that may bug you is 
the Ctrl-C thing which I think you can adjust upon login with the stty 
change and then modifying the label for it in the termcap, but I just 
use that as it comes.

Oh - one more thing.  Also in the *System* Preferences > Mission 
Control  you'll want to modify the function key assignments for F8-F10 
(for various window, decktop and zooming wizardry) to require another 
key like option or shift [mine seem to be set to option] so that these 
functions don't supersede filepro's need for those function keys.  If 
you're on older mac, then it would be, I believe this change would be in 
the settings for "Exposé".

OK - one other last thing about Terminal.  I have my saved Terminal 
connections set up to fan up from my dock and so there is a saved 
"ABCXYZ.terminal" file associated for each of these corresponding to 
either one of our servers or a client box.  This opens these saved 
sessions just fine, BUT, the mac saves each connected session and its 
history each time, so after many connections to a particular box, under 
Terminal's "Profiles" tab you'll have all those saved-state entries.  I 
never really use this feature but I mention it because 1 - it slows down 
a new connection window's initial appearance when these build up,  and 2 
- if I right click on the plain Terminal icon in the dock just trying to 
scroll to Basic to actually terminal into the mac itself, I have to 
scroll through all those copies of previous connections.  I've tried the 
documented method for not retaining history but it doesn't seem to 
affect these Terminal entries from growing.  Fortunately, on the 
Terminal tab for Profiles, you can remove these extra entries 
periodically using the "-" button.  (I've even cleared the plist files 
that were updated when a new entry is made, but it just gets recreated 
from somewhere and all those entries keep coming back.)