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28.0.50; Support for the Alacritty terminal emulator

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From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 48439 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48439: 28.0.50; Support for the Alacritty terminal emulator
Date: Sat, 15 May 2021 13:55:13 +0200

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

Hi Eli,

>> IMHO, it would make sense to have that alias is place at least until
>> someone comes up with "proper" support for Alacritty.
>
> Is Alacritty really similar to 256-color xterm?  What are the
> differences?

I don't know but given that it gives out itself as xterm-256color if
terminfo doesn't know it suggests it is similar enough.

> Do you know where I can find the terminfo database for Alacritty?

I've attached an archive of the 3 alacritty files in my
/usr/share/terminfo/a/ directory if that's what you were looking for.

Bye,
Tassilo

[terminfo-alacritty.tar.gz (application/gzip, attachment)]

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