> Leopard comes with the necessary stuff for several variants of nsterm, > but not nsterm-16color. You can install your own ncurses (e.g. via > MacPorts), which I usually do, and that *will* contain the necessary > nsterm-16color stuff, but system-provided programs won't use it. > *THAT* is why I first started toting around my own copy in my home > directory. :) Cool, I will check that out. > Termcap and terminfo aren't quite the same---termcap is older and > harder to work with. My Ubuntu install doesn't have an /etc/termcap > file either, and that's a good thing. However, I *do* have an > /etc/terminfo/ directory. In any event, Leopard stores its terminfo > files in /usr/share/terminfo. Yep, got that.
> The other reason I started toting around my own copy of nsterm-16color > is because the standard one doesn't contain descriptions for all the > features that Apple's Terminal can provide; in particular, it does > support an alternate display buffer (which allows programs like mutt > or vim to restore the previous contents of the terminal when they > exit) which the nsterm-16color file that comes with ncurses doesn't > include. So I had to modify it (the details are in the mutt archives) > to get exactly what I wanted... but that's me being picky. :) Well, good reasons to be picky. I'm glad i raised the question here now, and although the Mac-stuff is a little off-topic (sorry to other list readers about that) playing around with it will keep me occupied for the next few hours. Thanks again Kyle. Jamie.
