eterm-color unknown in terminfo

eterm-color unknown in terminfo

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Hi all,
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.
Thanks.

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Re: eterm-color unknown in terminfo

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> 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 <http://eterm.org/>.

In fact, eterm-color has made it into the ncurses patchset at
<ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.7/> in 2008 already.
Is Ubuntu distributing a vanilla 5.7 version?

See also a previous thread about the same subject:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-05/msg00053.html>

Ulrich

Re: eterm-color unknown in terminfo

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> writes:

>>>>>> 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 <http://eterm.org/>.
Ah ok, thanks.

> In fact, eterm-color has made it into the ncurses patchset at
> <ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.7/> in 2008 already.
> Is Ubuntu distributing a vanilla 5.7 version?
I found the package ncurses-term. 
It add all the missing definitions
of terms in /usr/share/terminfo.(with eterm-color too)
That's fix the problem in Emacs with term/ansi-term.
Thanks for this info ulm.

> See also a previous thread about the same subject:
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-05/msg00053.html>
>
> Ulrich

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