Re: Fixing xterm terminfos

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Michail Vidiassov wrote:

> Dear Thomas,
>
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > > > Mac OS X, whose maintainers
> > > > set $TERM to xterm-color even though there are more suitable entries in 
> > > > terminfo.src).
> > "nsterm" and the variants thereof
>
> How did you get the knowledge you have put into temrminfo?

For nsterm, it's secondhand information (from people who have Mac OS X).
For the portable terminal emulators - I've tested, modified most of those.
The "tack" program is useful for this.

> BTW, the current version of Apple Terminal in 1.5 (133) with MacOS 10.4.10,
> while the latest version in ncurses 5.6 is v100.1.8 with MacOS 10.3.9,
> but it is about to become obsolete real soon now, since the MacOS 1.5
> is promised to have Terminal 2.

perhaps it'll change - maybe not.

> As to concrete questions: what nsterm variant matches Terminal in utf mode?

Aside from things like line-drawing, I'd expect utf8 mode to not matter.

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