From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: eterm-color unknown in terminfo Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:56:31 +0100 Message-ID: <19762.6159.490033.170775@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <87vd1q9pmk.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295128618 17279 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2011 21:56:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 21:56:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thierry Volpiatto Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 15 22:56:54 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PeE7C-0000A2-8v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:56:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35221 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PeE7B-0002Ae-KI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:56:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33242 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PeE75-0002AK-RB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:56:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PeE74-00049H-NF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:56:47 -0500 Original-Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.1]:60021) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PeE74-00044m-Bf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:56:46 -0500 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.0/8.13.4) with ESMTP id p0FLuV03018953; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:56:31 +0100 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p0FLuVmf019082; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:56:31 +0100 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p0FLuVWZ019081; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:56:31 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87vd1q9pmk.fsf@gmail.com> X-Mailer: VM 8.1.1 under 23.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:134582 Archived-At: >>>>> On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Thierry Volpiatto wrote: > In ubuntu, when i do screen -x in a term/ansi-term i have an error > message telling me there is no info about eterm-color in terminfo. > Indeed, the symlink > /lib/terminfo/E/Eterm <=> /lib/terminfo/e/eterm-color > doesn't exists, only /lib/terminfo/E/Eterm-color exists. > Creating this symlink manually fix the problem. > However, would be great on one side or/and the other this be fixed. > I mean on emacs side an alias Eterm-color <=> eterm-color, > and/or on ubuntu side the symlink created by default. Such a symlink would be wrong, since Eterm-color with capital E has nothing to do with the Emacs terminal, but belongs to the terminal emulator of . In fact, eterm-color has made it into the ncurses patchset at in 2008 already. Is Ubuntu distributing a vanilla 5.7 version? See also a previous thread about the same subject: Ulrich