Re: xterm termcape :ti_at_:te_at_:

From: Thomas Dickey <dickey_at_radix.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:42:19 -0400
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 01:10:58AM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> 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.

yes (I don't recall if FreeBSD's system configuration for ncurses
uses this feature - but then again, truss/ktrace would tell that
part of the story).

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Thomas E. Dickey
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