Sorry, meant for this to go to the list (why no Reply-To?)...
Thomas Dickey wrote: First off thank you for such a helpful response! >> "pretty garbled" could be more than one thing... Here are some screen shots: <http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sets/72157594195837848/> >> Backing up a little, I'd edit that line to show >> >> macosx|generic color xterm, >> >> and remove the $HOME/.terminfo/x/xterm-color and >> $HOME/.terminfo/n/nxterm, >> rerun tic. Then >> >> infocmp macosx xterm-color >> >> would show whatever changes were made other than the sgr string. Here is the result: $ infocmp macosx xterm-color comparing macosx to xterm-color. comparing booleans. comparing numbers. comparing strings. hts: '\EH', NULL. is2: '\E7\E[r\E[m\E[?7h\E[?1;3;4;6l\E[4l\E8\E>', '\E[m\E[?7h\E[4l\E>\E7\E[r\E[?1;3;4;6l\E8'. kdch1: '\E[3~', '\177'. kend: NULL, '\E[4~'. kfnd: '\E[1~', NULL. khome: NULL, '\E[1~'. kslt: '\E[4~', NULL. meml: NULL, '\El'. memu: NULL, '\Em'. rs2: '\E7\E[r\E8\E[m\E[?7h\E[?1;3;4;6l\E[4l\E>', '\E[m\E[?7h\E[4l\E>\E7\E[r\E[?1;3;4;6l\E8'. >> xterm-color is almost certainly technically incorrect because it's >> unlikely that Terminal was designed to match that set of data. I agree. >> Running on Debian, you should be able to use tack (part of ncurses) >> to step through the features. I'd expect some differences on the >> color model for instance. Seeing the test fail for either flavor >> of "xterm-color" should help a little. I'll try to learn my way around tack's tests and follow up with a meaningful log. >> Since xterm-color was not designed to match Terminal, any >> differences here aren't going to be applied to ncurses. (In >> articular, I recall some complaints that the backspace/delete >> settings don't match Debian). But it would be useful to have an >> accurate terminal description for Terminal. >> >> Supposedly we already have this - the nsterm entries that have >> been in ncurses since 2001. There were some minor fixes to those >> early this year - see >> >> ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.gz I compiled your terminfo on my Debian box, and ssh'd over with TERM set to 'nsterm'. A few initial observations: - Color is lost at the Bash prompt. - Horizontal borders in Aptitude (e.g. in the search or quit dialogs) become '?' characters. - Delete works at the bash prompt, but in Aptitude it prints '^[[3~'. - Backspace works in Aptitude, whereas with xterm-color it printed '^?'. Thanks Again, Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
