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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: miha@kamnitnik.top
Cc: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>, 51297@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51297: 28.0.60; [PATCH] Update termcap/terminfo to indicate 16-color support
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 08:53:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmk1b3x1XnyOxZtpcb9c_zqa3jsCzW_TXTz7t7bcUqr3Rg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v91rcso0.fsf@miha-pc> (miha@kamnitnik.top's message of "Wed, 20 Oct 2021 23:06:39 +0200")

<miha@kamnitnik.top> writes:

> That's why I think its best to keep using 'TERM=eterm-color' and simply update
> the terminfo file.  Since all our updates to this file are backwards-compatible,
> there shouldn't be any major problems even if the terminfo database on the ssh
> host isn't up to date.  A problem does arise in the opposite case when the
> terminfo database on the host is up to date but the ssh client is term.el from
> Emacs version 27 or older.  TUI programs will think they can output sequences
> that the older term.el doesn't understand, but I think that term.el handles
> unknown sequences quite gracefully by simply ignoring them.

If they are ignored, I see no problem here.  Someone should perhaps double-check
that this is indeed the case?

> After Emacs-28 is released, we should probably talk to the ncurses maintainer
> about updating the eterm-color terminfo file distributed with the ncurses
> package.  From my understanding, the option I described in the previous
> paragraph is also the proffered way to update terminfo files in the ncurses
> package.

Are there any other terminfo files elsewhere that are worth updating, or
do they generally just base themselves on ncurses?





  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-30 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-19 23:49 bug#51297: 28.0.60; [PATCH] Update termcap/terminfo to indicate 16-color support Jim Porter
2021-10-20  8:29 ` miha--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-20 19:50   ` Jim Porter
2021-10-20 21:06     ` miha--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-30 15:53       ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-11-04 23:20   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-04 23:47     ` Jim Porter
2021-11-05  2:27       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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