Re: Terminal addition to Terminfo Database

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 01:39:24AM +0300, IFo Hancroft wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am IFo!
> 
> I would like to propose Termite's inclusion in the Terminfo Database.
> Termite is a popular keyboard centric VTE based terminal.
> 
> It has been brought to my attention that termite is already present in the
> Terminfo Database but as 'termite'. Termite presents itself as xterm-termite
> and currently we have to manually add Termite's terminfo to the Terminfo
> Database on every server we ssh to using it.

That's a problem which its developers ought to fix.
 
> I have checked the two from the database using infocmp -1 and diff and there
> are few slight differences between the one that Termite presents
> (https://github.com/thestinger/termite/blob/master/termite.terminfo) and the
> one already in the database, so I am not sure if my proposition would be
> suited as a file rename and would probably require a terminfo addition and
> maybe removal of the other.
> 
> Let me know if there are any problems with the terminfo posted above
> preventing it from inclusion in the database.

That's not going to happen, because it's not xterm.

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-termite

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