Ok. So, to avoid my shell use termcap, I can recompile bash with correct options (the option to use terminfo instead of termcap). In this way, it should not be necessary to edit my termcap file because my new bash will watch my terminfo file, isn't it?
----- Mail original ----- De: "Marc Lehmann" <[email protected]> À: "spam spam spam spam" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Envoyé: Mardi 7 Août 2012 05:07:46 Objet: Re: Long commands on multiple lines On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 09:21:20PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > Now I am wondering why "less" and "man" applications use my terminfo entry > whereas the "rxvt-unicode" application use the old termcap file to display > correctly the long commands... rxvt-unicode doesn't use terminfo, nor termcap. your shell (e.g. bash) uses termcap, because whoever provided it (i.e. your gnu/linux distribution) linked it against the obsolete termcap libraries. it simply shouldn't do so and use terminfo, like anything else. or the distro should properly update the termcap file. this is a recurring issue with at least fedora. debian gnu/linux doesn't have this issue for example. -- The choice of a Deliantra, the free code+content MORPG -----==- _GNU_ http://www.deliantra.net ----==-- _ generation ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [email protected] -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ _______________________________________________ rxvt-unicode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schmorp.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rxvt-unicode
