On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 03:35:22AM EDT, Frank Terbeck wrote:

> Chris Jones <cjns1...@gmail.com>:

> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 09:48:02AM EDT, Frank Terbeck wrote:

[...]

> What would those setaf= and setab= values be?

Attaching the infocmp of the version in the ncurses tarball.

> > At that point I figured it was time to get in touch with Thomas
> > Dickey, the upstream xterm and ncurses maintainer, who informed me
> > that the current xterm-256color entry has precisely the setaf= and
> > setab= values of my hacked version and that this has been the case
> > since 2006..!

> That is kind of weird, because my debian lenny tells me, its curses
> version is: 5.7+20081213-1 - which is well beyond 2006.

Nothing in the ncurses tarball that looks like the above versioning

Perhaps corresponds to the debian build date?

> [...]

> If it is indeed a debian problem, that certainly would be the right
> way to go.

The merit of fixing it via an updated terminfo entry is that you don't
have to rely on an application's providing an escape hatch that lets you
modify the description of the terminal. Heck, the cvs version of tmux
that I built a couple of months ago didn't yet have this capability.

CJ

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