From: Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: termcap
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:25:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010905092533.A29243@dman.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010905053205.F4009@hq.newdream.net>; from william@hq.newdream.net on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:32:05AM -0700
> this machine doesn't have zsh so i'm running zsh from $HOME/bin/
> did i need to tell zsh the location of terminfo when i compiled it? do i
> just need to set different environment variables?
>
> if termcap is needed, i have a current copy of that in $HOME/etc/termcap
>
> i'm having the same problem with tcsh, so i'm assuming there's just some
> variable i need to set.
bash treats the TERMINFO parameter as special, and resets the terminal every
time it changes. zsh (and tcsh, I assume) don't currently know about this
variable. Other than the zsh/terminfo module, zsh is dealing with
termcap or termcap emulation.
On the other hand, zsh does react when the TERM parameter is changed.
I have zsh linked against ncurses, which knows about TERMINFO even though
zsh doesn't, and if I export TERMINFO, then change TERM, it will happily
find the terminfo definitions in $TERMINFO.
Thus, I think you are either not exporting TERMINFO to the environment
or the library which is providing zsh with tgetent() and friends
doesn't care about that variable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-05 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-05 12:32 termcap Will Yardley
2001-09-05 13:25 ` Clint Adams [this message]
2001-09-05 19:28 ` termcap Will Yardley
2001-09-05 14:03 ` termcap Oliver Kiddle
2001-09-05 14:21 ` termcap Will Yardley
2001-09-05 14:24 ` termcap Bart Schaefer
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