Re: Different behavior in Linux and Mac OS X

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 03:34:09AM +0100, Sebastiano Vigna wrote:
> 
> 
> > On 9 May 2021, at 03:20, Sebastiano Vigna <sebastiano.vigna@unimi.it> wrote:
> > 
> > No, that's the first thing I tried.  It almost works, but not completely. 
> > The cursor is not always positioned correctly.  There is some visible
> > improvement from the no-setupterm() version, but still it does not work.
> 
> Let me be more precise:
> 
> - If I unset TERM, the behavior is identical to not calling setupterm()
> - If I set TERM to "dummy" , the behavior is identical to not calling 
> setupterm()
> - If I set TERM to "ansi", or leave it xterm-256color, some cursor placement 
> happens but, for example, when moving around the update of line and column 
> numbers happen in the middle of the screen, instead of the status bar.

If you set TERM to a valid terminal description, but use your hard-coded
escape sequence (e.g., ignoring the terminal description's strings while
allowing the tputs check for initialization to succeed), then it should
work as intended.

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