Shane Hathaway wrote:
Hans Fugal wrote:
Is there a way to make a terminfo or termcap or whatever that unsets
that bce bit? Would it have to reside on the target machine, I assume?
Is there a common TERM setting that might work better than xterm or
rxvt or xterm-color or whatever (and supports color)? If one was able
to iron out the terminfo settings that reflect Terminal.app's
capabilities, would it be able to make its way into the official
terminfo distribution, or is that an unchanging fossil now?
I just checked and found out that my /etc/terminfo comes from the
ncurses package. The ncurses package is clearly in active maintenance.
The release notes for version 5.6 mention some OS X related fixes. Do
you have version 5.6 installed on your server?
Interesting. Yes and no. I have two boxes handy, one is an ubuntu 7.10
box with ncurses 5.6 and the other is a debian box with 5.5. The same
behavior on both, but really it makes since since TERM is set to xterm
or rxvt which do support bce, so naturally ncurses will use it instead
of drawing spaces or whatever workaround it would implement for a
terminfo that doesn't support bce. So I still need to find a magic TERM
setting for OS X, but it's sounding like maybe there is one to find.
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right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach
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