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Emacs doesn't use only terminfo database to identify a terminal
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Akib Azmain Turja |
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Emacs doesn't use only terminfo database to identify a terminal |
Date: |
Sat, 10 Sep 2022 16:11:51 +0600 |
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.
But why? Who is the culprit here, Emacs or ncurses?
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