Re: xterm termcape :ti_at_:te_at_:

From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:10:58 +0300
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:38:26PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 01:12:54PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > Mine sets it to rxvt.
> > 
> > I tried setting TERM to rxvt in xterm, but of course it didn't work.
> 
> I overlooked asking whether Randy had regen'd the termcap.db file
> which is presumably used for the updated termcap.  A truss/ktrace
> would show the particular file opened, but not the content.  If
> we were talking about terminfo, I'd look for the output of infocmp
> to verify the change, but don't have a convenient way to verify
> that the termcap data seen by "less" is as expected.

There is also $TERMCAP env var that adds a level of inconvenience
when debugging such issues.

Received on Mon Apr 25 2011 - 20:11:12 UTC

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