Hi

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 01:59:47AM -0700, David Coppa wrote:
> 
> > From: Nicholas Marriott <[email protected]>
> > Date: Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 4:37 AM
> > Subject: Re: terminfo entries for rxvt-unicode
> > To: [email protected]
> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> > 
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > Weren't we going to install it in /usr/local/share/terminfo?
> 
> Yes, but there is another problem:
> 
> $ ssh cvs.openbsd.org
> [email protected]'s password:
> Last login: Tue Jan 15 01:09:10 2013 from
> OpenBSD 5.0-current (GENERIC.MP) #81: Wed Oct  5 09:41:56 MDT 2011
> 
> $ top
> top: no termcap entry for a `rxvt-unicode-256color' terminal
> 
> Installing rxvt-unicode on all the machines you want to ssh to is
> not a viable solution.
> And because of this I'm also forcing the default terminal type to
> be 'rxvt-256color' using the '--with-term=rxvt-256color' configure
> argument for our rxvt-unicode port.
> 
> Since rxvt-unicode is becoming increasingly popular as an alternative
> to xterm, here's why I'm asking to add its terminfo entries to the
> system termcap...

Well, my point is that we have an upstream, if possible it would be nice
to keep a small diff to ncurses.

Still it doesn't hurt to make it easy for people in this one case. Can
you rejig the entry so it is a bit more compressed and doesn't take up
200 lines?

Reply via email to