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Re: Emacs doesn't use only terminfo database to identify a terminal
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Emacs doesn't use only terminfo database to identify a terminal |
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Sat, 10 Sep 2022 13:34:27 +0300 |
> From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 16:11:51 +0600
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> Emacs uses something more than just a terminfo database to determine the
> capabilities of a terminal. For example, if I run Emacs in St, keys
> like C-<left>, M-<up> work. Then I modified the terminal name by
> changing the terminfo source file (st-256color -> est-256color). If I
> run Emacs with the new terminfo database, keys like C-<down>, M-<right>
> no longer work, although infocmp shows that both (st-256color and
> est-256color) terminfo databases contain identical capabilities. Now if
> I rename the terminal name to something like "st-..." (I used
> "st-foo-bar-baz"), those keys work again.
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> But why? Who is the culprit here, Emacs or ncurses?
See lisp/term/st.el, it's part of the puzzle, I think.