Hi,
does anybody know, why termcap/terminfo support is disabled in
poplog?
In pop/src/syscomp/x86_64/sysdefs.p it says 'No longer sets
TERMINFO for
Linux' and the same is the case in several other files.
I reenabled it and removed the conditional test in
pop/ved/src/vdinitseq.p:
#_IF not(DEF LINUX)
elseif testdef vedtermcapscreen then
weakref vedtermcapscreen(name);
#_ENDIF
and it works without problems so far.
Positive effect: If using a different terminal emulator then
xterm,
which doesn't set its TERM variable to xterm like e.g. urxvt
(TERM=rxvt-unicode-256color) or many other terminals like
alacritty,
kitty etc. poplog does no longer ask about the terminal type when
starting up, because there is a termcap/terminfo entry for these
terminals (mostly identical to xterm).
What was the reason for disabling it? I can see no problems so
far.
Everything works as expected.
Thanks om advance for any info,
Andreas
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