From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Emacs doesn't use only terminfo database to identify a terminal
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 16:11:51 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmg38ro8.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)
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Emacs uses something more than just a terminfo database to determine the
capabilities of a terminal. For example, if I run Emacs in St, keys
like C-<left>, M-<up> work. Then I modified the terminal name by
changing the terminfo source file (st-256color -> est-256color). If I
run Emacs with the new terminfo database, keys like C-<down>, M-<right>
no longer work, although infocmp shows that both (st-256color and
est-256color) terminfo databases contain identical capabilities. Now if
I rename the terminal name to something like "st-..." (I used
"st-foo-bar-baz"), those keys work again.
But why? Who is the culprit here, Emacs or ncurses?
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next reply other threads:[~2022-09-10 10:11 UTC|newest]
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2022-09-10 10:11 Akib Azmain Turja [this message]
2022-09-10 10:34 ` Emacs doesn't use only terminfo database to identify a terminal Eli Zaretskii
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