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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Mohsin Kaleem <mohkale@kisara.moe>
Cc: 62265@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62265: Underline does not work in Terminal Emacs
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2023 19:55:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83edpmaqrs.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wn3ex8ik.fsf@kisara.moe> (message from Mohsin Kaleem on Sat, 18 Mar 2023 17:40:51 +0000)

> From: Mohsin Kaleem <mohkale@kisara.moe>
> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2023 17:40:51 +0000
> 
> Underline support for tty frames was added to Emacs back in the Emacs
> 28.0.90 release. It hasn't worked for me since. Today I tried
> investigating why. I tracked it down ncurses and discovered the tgetstr
> function to retrieve the escape sequence for underline support doesn't
> fetch the value configured in the terminfo database for my Terminal
> (st). I can reproduce this function failing to fetch the entry in a
> minimal sample program (code attached).
> 
> The cause for this seems to be in ncurses directly. In the definition of
> tgetstr in lib_termcap.c there's a check for ValidExt for any
> non-standard terminfo entries. This macro fails when fetching an entry
> that is longer than 2 characters, meaning tgetstr for "smxx" fails and I
> get no underlines. I've managed to fix this by using tigetstr in-place
> of tgetstr (this variant is also used for querying the setf24 and setb24
> termcaps already in "term.c" so I suspect this is a known issue). I'm
> not sure what the termcap library does but I'm guessing it doesn't have
> this restriction.
> 
> Please fix this by switching to tigetstr instead of tgetstr for this
> record when building with terminfo. I've got a sample patch for this
> attached.

Thanks.  Can someone with access to such a terminal please verify the
issue with ncurses, and also verify the proposed change?





  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-18 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-18 17:40 bug#62265: Underline does not work in Terminal Emacs Mohsin Kaleem
2023-03-18 17:51 ` Mohsin Kaleem
2023-03-18 17:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-03-18 18:50   ` Jim Porter
2023-03-19 10:07     ` Mohsin Kaleem
2023-03-19 11:37       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-19 11:51         ` Mohsin Kaleem
2023-03-19 12:24           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-16  6:22             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-18 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-18 18:07   ` Mohsin Kaleem

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