Hi,
I've been trying to update the terminfo database to match the terminals
I usually login from, that is a Konsole (TERM=xterm), a redhat linux
console (TERM=linux) and cygwin or putty from windows. Mainly because
shell line editing is broken in a few cases and colours don't work.
I've found the following behaviour:
While /usr/share/misc/terminfo.db exists it will always be used no
matter what exists in /usr/share/terminfo/*/*
/usr/share/misc/terminfo/*/* or $HOME/.terminfo/*/* or what the is set
in the TERMINFO or TERMINFO_DIRS environment variables. At least thats
the behaviour I've seen exhibited by infocmp, vim and colorls.
Is this the way it's supposed to work? Previous postings on this list
(~07 Sep 2003) say that /usr/share/terminfo should override
/usr/share/misc/terminfo.db but it isn't happening for me.
If that is the case can anyone a way to get my new entries into
terminfo.db, or extract all the existing ones into the expanded database
format?
Also what governs the width of pages generated by man(1)? On most
systems they are always formated to fit my terminal but on OpenBSD they
always appear 80 columns wide.
Thanks
Mike
