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#51297
28.0.60; [PATCH] Update termcap/terminfo to indicate 16-color support
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Reported by: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 23:50:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: moreinfo, patch
Found in version 28.0.60
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #17 received at 51297 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
<miha <at> kamnitnik.top> writes:
> That's why I think its best to keep using 'TERM=eterm-color' and simply update
> the terminfo file. Since all our updates to this file are backwards-compatible,
> there shouldn't be any major problems even if the terminfo database on the ssh
> host isn't up to date. A problem does arise in the opposite case when the
> terminfo database on the host is up to date but the ssh client is term.el from
> Emacs version 27 or older. TUI programs will think they can output sequences
> that the older term.el doesn't understand, but I think that term.el handles
> unknown sequences quite gracefully by simply ignoring them.
If they are ignored, I see no problem here. Someone should perhaps double-check
that this is indeed the case?
> After Emacs-28 is released, we should probably talk to the ncurses maintainer
> about updating the eterm-color terminfo file distributed with the ncurses
> package. From my understanding, the option I described in the previous
> paragraph is also the proffered way to update terminfo files in the ncurses
> package.
Are there any other terminfo files elsewhere that are worth updating, or
do they generally just base themselves on ncurses?
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