Re: terminfo entry for wezterm doesn't match upstream

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 02:35:05AM -0600, Thayne McCombs wrote:
> $ infocmp -d -A /usr/share/terminfo -B ~/.terminfo wezterm
> > comparing wezterm to wezterm.
> >     comparing booleans.
> >         hs: F:T.
> >         km: F:T.
> >         xenl: F:T.
> >     comparing numbers.
> >         pairs: 65536, 32767.
> >     comparing strings.
> >         cvvis: NULL, '\E[?12;25h'.
> >         dsl: NULL, '\E]2;\E\\'.
> >         fsl: NULL, '\E\\'.
> >         ka1: '\EOw', NULL.
> >         ka3: '\EOy', NULL.
> >         kb2: '\EOu', '\EOE'.
> >         kbeg: '\EOE', NULL.
> >         kc1: '\EOq', NULL.
> >         kc3: '\EOs', NULL.
> >         mgc: '\E[?69l', NULL.
> >         nel: '\EE', NULL.
> >         rmkx: '\E[?1l', '\E[?1l\E>'.
> >         rmm: NULL, '\E[?1034l'.
> >         smglp: '\E[?69h\E[%i%p1%ds', NULL.
> >         smglr: '\E[?69h\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%ds', NULL.
> >         smgrp: '\E[?69h\E[%i;%p1%ds', NULL.
> >         smkx: '\E[?1h', '\E[?1h\E='.
> >         smm: NULL, '\E[?1034h'.
> >         tsl: NULL, '\E]0;'..
> > 
> 
> I'm not sure about the significance of the other fields that differ, but by
> doing a bisect on the diffs, I discovered that the difference that causes
> the scrolling bug with neovim windows is caused by the `smglp` and `smgrp`.
> 
> So I suspect it should include `smglp@, smgrp@`?

no - the entire feature for left/right margins should be removed until
there's a widely-used stable version of wezterm which fully supports
the feature, so that end users won't be affected.
 
> It also looks like the upstream wezterm.terminfo uses several "user defined"
> capabilities. I'm not sure what ncurses policy is on using those, or what,
> if anything, consumes those.

it's in the FAQ

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#dbupdate

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net

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