Re: tput failing on 10 and 12 systems?

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 08:49:10 -0800
Hiya,

Just to follow through - part of tput is to decode command args, but
it then just requests it from the ncurses tputs() call.

So it could be tput, but it could also be the BSD ncurses work.


-adrian


On 21 November 2016 at 07:54, Julian Elischer <julian_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> example on freefall     (FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #0 r306376)
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> julian_at_freefall:tput setaf 4|od -c
> 0000000  033   [   m
> 0000003
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> so nothing happens, and tput returns 1.
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> but on a FreeBSD 8 system:
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> [jelischer_at_alpha ~]$ tput setaf 4|od -c
> 0000000  033   [   3   4   m
> 0000005
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> which make the text change color.
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> similarly all the related tput color commands I can think of fail on
> 10,11,12
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> but programs such as vim can use color just fine. So I suspect tput itself.
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> anyone have experience with this? seems easy to reproduce.
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