From 1726bf0ffcda9f8911d0e6905c6dadd69d915525 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Marriott Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:42:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update NOTES, add known issues. --- NOTES | 18 +++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NOTES b/NOTES index aea3a3be..6a4234e2 100644 --- a/NOTES +++ b/NOTES @@ -31,11 +31,11 @@ The following is a summary of major features implemented in this version: - A optional status line (enabled by default). - Window history and copy and paste. - Support for VT100 line drawing characters. +- A basic configuration file. And major missing features: -- Status line customisation, beyond presence and colour. -- Mouse support. +- Proper mouse support. - No support for programs changing termios(4) settings or other tty(4) ioctls. A more extensive, but rough, todo list is included in the TODO file. @@ -49,6 +49,18 @@ supports "default" (transparent) foreground and background colours. On OpenBSD, TERM=xterm and TERM=xterm-color lack this; TERM=rxvt does have it and works fine at least with the aterm and rxvt terminal emulators. +Note that TERM=xterm does not support colour on OpenBSD. screen ignores this, +tmux does not: use xterm-color or rxvt for colour. + +There are the following known issues: + +- tmux on the console on OpenBSD (usually TERM=wsvt25) is broken beyond use. +- cons25 on the FreeBSD console lies about its support for scroll regions, + reports are that using TERM=screen pretty much works okay. +- Darwin/OS X's poll(2) is broken and doesn't support polling pty(4)s; as tmux + makes heavy use of this and there are no suitable alternatives on the + platform, Darwin and OS X are unfortunately not supported for the present. + For debugging, running tmux with -v or -vv will generate server and client log files in the current directory. @@ -59,4 +71,4 @@ welcome. Please email: -- Nicholas Marriott -$Id: NOTES,v 1.32 2008-05-31 20:04:15 nicm Exp $ +$Id: NOTES,v 1.33 2008-06-16 16:42:33 nicm Exp $