From: Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com>
To: <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: patch to make $TERMINFO special
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 17:20:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110509172014.26217434@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110509155138.GA3073@lorien.comfychair.org>
On Mon, 9 May 2011 08:51:38 -0700
Danek Duvall <duvall@la-z-boy.comfychair.org> wrote:
> > What problem is the addenv() call trying to fix?
>
> It didn't actually seem that TERMINFO was being set in my shell if I
> didn't do that. In fact, I got the message
>
> can't find terminal definition for xterm-256color
>
> when I change $TERMINFO, and I get that with your patch as well. It
> also just doesn't work -- colors are wrong, tput colors comes back
> empty, as does echoti colors, and the terminal handling is absolutely
> awful, just as if nothing had happened.
You are remembering to export it from the shell ("export TERMINFO=...")?
The shell doesn't do that by default and I don't think there's any good
reason to make it do so --- every other variable that needs exporting
you have to mark explicitly for export, unless it was imported.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-09 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-08 20:13 Danek Duvall
2011-05-09 11:16 ` Peter Stephenson
2011-05-09 15:51 ` Danek Duvall
2011-05-09 16:20 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2011-05-09 16:23 ` Danek Duvall
2011-05-09 17:02 ` Peter Stephenson
2011-05-09 17:16 ` Danek Duvall
2011-05-10 15:42 ` Peter Stephenson
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