solaris --color 21.3.2 -nw tty

solaris --color 21.3.2 -nw tty

[John M. Adams]

Hello,

I've recently needed to use -nw.  It works well.  The color support is
awesome.

But I have the following problem.  The cannonical installation (Solaris)
at work(where I don't have root), is 21.3.2.  This has (I think) color
support, but it does not respect the TERMINFO env variable.  It only looks
in /usr/share/terminfo and gives up if it can't find the entry there.  This
is problematic for me since I am currently forced to use my own TERMINFO
directory.

I built my own emacs from CVS a few days ago.  It has the --color switch and
it respects TERMINFO.  What a godsend.  My CVS build works very well,
except that I have noticed some glitches saving custom faces through the
customize-face interface.  I can workaround this, but..

Is there a way to workaround the TERMINFO problem with 21.3.2 or is there a
recommended version/CVS tag I can use to check out something that handles
saving custom faces a little better?  Or is there a particular version I
should test to see whether a bug report is indicated?

Thanks a lot,

-- 
John M. Adams

Re: solaris --color 21.3.2 -nw tty

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "John M. Adams" <jmadams@stsci.edu>
> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:35:18 -0500
> 
> But I have the following problem.  The cannonical installation (Solaris)
> at work(where I don't have root), is 21.3.2.  This has (I think) color
> support, but it does not respect the TERMINFO env variable.  It only looks
> in /usr/share/terminfo and gives up if it can't find the entry there.  This
> is problematic for me since I am currently forced to use my own TERMINFO
> directory.

Is it possible that the installed Emacs 21.3 was built with termcap
support, not with terminfo (try setting TERMCAP instead of TERMINFO
and see if that helps)?  Or perhaps it was linked against a bad
version of the curses library?

Also, why do you at all need to set TERMINFO?

> I built my own emacs from CVS a few days ago.  It has the --color switch and
> it respects TERMINFO.  What a godsend.  My CVS build works very well,
> except that I have noticed some glitches saving custom faces through the
> customize-face interface.  I can workaround this, but..
> 
> Is there a way to workaround the TERMINFO problem with 21.3.2 or is there a
> recommended version/CVS tag I can use to check out something that handles
> saving custom faces a little better?

Please report any problems you find in the CVS version (using the
"M-x report-emacs-bug RET" command, which will send the report to the
correct email address), so that they could be diagnosed and fixed.  If
that is indeed a bug, it will most probably be fixed very soon,
provided that you report it.

Once the problem with customize-face is resolved, you could simply
resync with the CVS, rebuild Emacs, and use it instead of the version
installed by your sysadmins.