Re: termcap for termite

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 03:18:08PM +0000, Markus Pfeiffer wrote:
> Dear Thomas,
> 
> 
> Thomas Dickey writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 12:31:37PM +0000, Markus Pfeiffer wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> find attached the terminfo and termcap for xterm-termite.
> >
> > hmm - will review.
> >
> > You should be aware that VTE-based terminal descriptions should
> > be derived from "vte", and will not be named after "xterm".
> >
> > I'll review this and see how to integrate it.
> 
> 
> Thanks for looking. To be honest (and I apologise if this is documented
> clearly somewhere), I didn't look very far, and am not familiar with
> terminfo/termcap so much.
> 
> The author of "termite" seems to be unaware as well, since I only lifted
> this information from his git repository.

:-)
 
> I promise to be a better citizen next time and look at the documentation
> more closely.

no problem.  I was reminded that I'd not written enough in the faq.  Here's
a first cut at that (I recall discussing each point more than once on the
mailing list):

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#dbupdate

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