Re: eterm-color not in ncurses/terminfo (and name clash with eterm.org)

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden> writes:

  > >>>>> On Mon, 4 May 2009, Samuel Bronson wrote:
  > 
  > > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> wrote:
  > >> When term.el starts, it sets up both TERMCAP and TERMINFO, so
  > >> applications should work just fine without any support in the standard
  > >> terminfo distribution.
  > 
  > > Hmm. I don't see any mention of TERMINFO in term.el except for the
  > > code that actually sets it ... it should be documented.
  > 
  > > Regardless: How does that work over SSH? (I do wish they had thought
  > > this sort of thing out better when they designed terminfo in the first
  > > place, but I think it's a bit late for that now...)
  > 
  > That's the point, with the TERMCAP and TERMINFO variables it works
  > fine most of the time, but there are some situations where it doesn't. 
  > Having it in the general terminfo files would help in such cases.
  > 
  > But please disregard my original message; looks like eterm-color has
  > made it into ncurses meanwhile:
  > <ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.7/ncurses-5.7-20081129.patch>
  > 
  > However, if I compare etc/e/eterm-color.ti with the entry now in
  > terminfo.src, then the latter has the following additional entries:
  > 
  >     msgr,
  >     blink=\E[5m,
  >     sgr=\E[0%?%p1%p3%|%t;7%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p4%t;5%;%?%p6%t;1%;%?%p7%t;8%;m,
  >     u6=\E[%i%d;%dR,
  >     u7=\E[6n,
  > 
  > Are these correct, or should they (or some of them) be removed from
  > the entry in ncurses/terminfo?

I added msgr, u6 and u7 to etc/e/eterm-color
blink is wrong
No idea what that long string is supposed to do for sgr...