tcsh $sl and $el variables (was Re: Title bar flicker fix for XTerm..)

Christos S. Zoulas christos at batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu
Mon Oct 8 14:54:03 AEST 1990


In article <COMPOSER.90Oct8000228 at chem.bu.edu> composer at chem.bu.edu writes:
>Back in March, I sent a patch to Paul Placeway that would set the sl and el
>variable properly.  There was a mistake in the source; tcsh was looking up
>termcap capabilities named sl and el, instead of ts and fs.  Oops...
>
>The fix is included below.  This was made from tcsh 5.18 (BBN) 2/20/90 pl 0.
>

This patch will fix part the sl and el problem, but it creates another if
the ts and fs strings contain wildcard characters (This is the case with
xterm). So if you apply this fix, also make sure that the strings don't
get globbed...

christos
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