* How to install a terminfo entry (eterm-color from Emacs)?
@ 2012-01-04 19:51 Kevin Tran
2012-04-25 21:18 ` Peter Dyballa
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Kevin Tran @ 2012-01-04 19:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
I want to run GNU Screen from within an Emacs term-mode buffer. When I try to do this I get an error:
$ screen
Cannot find terminfo entry for 'eterm-color'.
This error suggests that I should install the eterm-color terminfo entry. I attempted to do this in 2 ways which both failed.
The first attempt was to use the TERMINFO environment variable.
My .bashrc:
export TERMINFO=~/.terminfo
Then I did:
$ mkdir -p ~/.terminfo/e/
$ cp /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/23.3a/share/emacs/23.3/etc/e/* ~/.terminfo/e/
In the term-mode buffer the eterm-color entry is not found. It says that it gets eterm-color from TERMCAP instead of from the actual file.
$ infocmp
# Reconstructed via infocmp from file: TERMCAP
eterm-color,
am, mir, xenl,
colors#8, cols#138, it#8, lines#41, pairs#64,
bel=^G, bold=\E[1m, clear=\E[H\E[J, cr=^M,
csr=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr, cub=\E[%p1%dD, cub1=^H,
cud=\E[%p1%dB, cud1=^J, cuf=\E[%p1%dC, cuf1=\E[C,
cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH, cuu=\E[%p1%dA, cuu1=\E[A,
dch=\E[%p1%dP, dch1=\E[P, dl=\E[%p1%dM, dl1=\E[M, ed=\E[J,
el=\E[K, el1=\E[1K, home=\E[H, ht=^I, ich=\E[%p1%d@,
il=\E[%p1%dL, il1=\E[L, ind=^J, invis=\E[8m, kbs=\177,
kcub1=\EOD, kcud1=\EOB, kcuf1=\EOC, kcuu1=\EOA,
kdch1=\E[3~, kend=\E[4~, khome=\E[1~, knp=\E[6~, kpp=\E[5~,
nel=^M^J, op=\E[39;49m, rc=\E8, rev=\E[7m, rmir=\E[4l,
rmso=\E[27m, rmul=\E24m, rs1=\Ec, sc=\E7, setab=\E[4%p1%dm,
setaf=\E[3%p1%dm, sgr0=\E[m, smir=\E[4h, smso=\E[7m,
smul=\E[4m,
The second attempt was to use symlinks.
$ sudo mkdir /usr/share/terminfo/e/
$ sudo cp /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/23.3a/share/emacs/23.3/etc/e/* /usr/share/terminfo/e/
This failed in the same way as the first attempt.
Why did neither attempt work? How do I get the eterm-color terminfo entry installed?
I am running OS X 10.6.8 and Emacs 23.3.1.
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* How to install a terminfo entry (eterm-color from Emacs)?
@ 2012-04-24 20:02 Kevin Tran
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Kevin Tran @ 2012-04-24 20:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
I want to run GNU Screen from within an Emacs term-mode buffer. When I try to
do this I get an error:
$ screen
Cannot find terminfo entry for 'eterm-color'.
This error suggests that I should install the eterm-color terminfo entry. I
attempted to do this in 2 ways which both failed.
The first attempt was to use the TERMINFO environment variable.
My .bashrc:
export TERMINFO=~/.terminfo
Then I did:
$ mkdir -p ~/.terminfo/e/
$ cp /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/23.3a/share/emacs/23.3/etc/e/* ~/.terminfo/e/
In the term-mode buffer the eterm-color entry is not found. It says that it
gets eterm-color from TERMCAP instead of from the actual file.
$ infocmp
# Reconstructed via infocmp from file: TERMCAP
eterm-color,
am, mir, xenl,
colors#8, cols#138, it#8, lines#41, pairs#64,
bel=^G, bold=\E[1m, clear=\E[H\E[J, cr=^M,
csr=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr, cub=\E[%p1%dD, cub1=^H,
cud=\E[%p1%dB, cud1=^J, cuf=\E[%p1%dC, cuf1=\E[C,
cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH, cuu=\E[%p1%dA, cuu1=\E[A,
dch=\E[%p1%dP, dch1=\E[P, dl=\E[%p1%dM, dl1=\E[M, ed=\E[J,
el=\E[K, el1=\E[1K, home=\E[H, ht=^I, ich=\E[%p1%d@,
il=\E[%p1%dL, il1=\E[L, ind=^J, invis=\E[8m, kbs=\177,
kcub1=\EOD, kcud1=\EOB, kcuf1=\EOC, kcuu1=\EOA,
kdch1=\E[3~, kend=\E[4~, khome=\E[1~, knp=\E[6~, kpp=\E[5~,
nel=^M^J, op=\E[39;49m, rc=\E8, rev=\E[7m, rmir=\E[4l,
rmso=\E[27m, rmul=\E24m, rs1=\Ec, sc=\E7, setab=\E[4%p1%dm,
setaf=\E[3%p1%dm, sgr0=\E[m, smir=\E[4h, smso=\E[7m,
smul=\E[4m,
The second attempt was to use symlinks.
$ sudo mkdir /usr/share/terminfo/e/
$ sudo cp /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/23.3a/share/emacs/23.3/etc/e/*
/usr/share/terminfo/e/
This failed in the same way as the first attempt.
Why did neither attempt work? How do I get the eterm-color terminfo entry
installed?
I am running OS X 10.7.3 and Emacs 23.4.
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