Yes, I'd like to get it updated but it is a bit fiddly since quite a lot has changed to the latest ncurses and that often includes multiple levels of inheritence between entries.
I had a quick look and it seems the latest ncurses adds yet another xterm type, xterm-new, and makes xterm just the same as that. xterm-new inherits from xterm-basic, which we have, but our xterm-basic is not quite the same as the one they use. I'll have a closer look tomorrow and see if I can get it sorted out. On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:51:13AM +1000, Damien Miller wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > > > > > > What does "echo $TERM" show before you attach tmux? > > > > > > > > again, this seems to be a putty specific issue. > > > > no problems whatsoever on local terminal. > > > > TERM is set to xterm before i run tmux, then it changes to screen. > > > > > > The xterm terminal description does not support colour so tmux does not > > > attempt > > > to use it, use a terminal description that does have it such as > > > xterm-color or > > > xterm-xfree86. > > > > This causes problems fora lot of people, I don't think there are any b&w > > xterms > > out there and recent ncurses does have setaf/setab in its xterm > > description... so I don't see a reason we shouldn't just have a quirk to > > override it. Could you try this please? > > Shouldn't we consider updating our terminfo/termcap too? > > -d
