Re: screen-256color on MacOS 10.5.5

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Christian Ebert wrote:

> > Mostly ncurses - one of the various ways that it fails to find the
> > terminfo database: (a) not there, (b) TERMINFO and/or TERMINFO_DIRS
> > variables set to a misleading value.
>
> Sorry, this is entirely a MacOS 10.5 issue. Setting up the
> environment in a standard way just doesn't work, especially for
> X11. Nice example: the system bashrc sources a script that puts
> /usr/local _after_ /bin and /usr/bin, it's called path_helper.sh
> ....

I suppose so (agreeing that there's probably a configuration change
somewhere, which is causing the issue), but where ncurses and screen see
the problem, it's ncurses reporting it...

> ATM I am calling X11 from another terminal emulator, because
> otherwise even login doesn't seem to call a login shell, duh ...
> again sorry, I stop ranting, entirely off-topic here.

no problem

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