On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 04:06:51PM +0100, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Package: ncurses-base > Version: 5.9-4 > > Hi, > > When building terminfo files in debian/rules, they are built with the -x > option: > > for ti in xterm hurd rxvt rxvt-unicode; do \ > TERMINFO=$(fulltempdir)/usr/share/terminfo \ > tic -x debian/$$ti.ti; \ > done
That's been the case for quite a while (a quick check of the changelog shows it's since 2004). It's likely that this is not directly the cause of whatever problem you are reporting. > This option causes unknown capabilities to be treated as user-defined, > this means that they get included even if tic doesn't know about them. > In the case of xterm (and some xterm derivatives, like > xterm-256color), this means that memu and meml are included. > Decompiling the file and then recompiling it without -x causes these > two options to go away. > > One direct consequence of this "-x" is that when opening emacs in the > console (i.e. running emacs -nw in a gnome-terminal or xterm, with > TERM=xterm or xterm-256color) shift-up doesn't work. In this case, > emacs shows: <select> is undefined. > > There have been a number of people encountering this issue, although > surprisingly, I found no other bug reports: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10871745/shift-up-arrow-doesnt-highlight-text-emacs-iterm2 > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2011-05/msg00211.html > http://forums.vandyke.com/showpost.php?p=26580&postcount=25 More likely - as I noted in my reply to the last thread, you may be using gnome-terminal, whose mismatches versus xterm aggravate lots of interesting problems in this general area. If that's the case, this should be added to the heap of unresolved issues in gnome-terminal. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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