Re: ANN: terminfo-20140607.src.gz

[Nicholas Marriott]

We are talking about TERM outside tmux, not inside. You must have
TERM=screen or screen-256color inside tmux, but outside it should be
whatever is right for the terminal tmux is running in.


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 01:14:46PM +0100, Christian Ebert wrote:
> * Thomas Dickey on Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 21:00:44 -0400
> > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:24:04PM +0100, Nicholas Marriott wrote:
> >>>> But I'm not clear what problem you're seeing, if you want to show me the
> >>>> new terminfo entry and tell me how to reproduce the problem (preferably
> >>>> off-list), I'll have a look. Perhaps we should go back to doing the same
> >>>> as screen here since we are using its terminfo entry.
> >>> 
> >>> That's not necessarily a Good Thing.
> >>> 
> >>> You might consider making a special case on initialization to detect if 
> >>> it's
> >>> got TERM=screen{whatever} and/or smso containing SGR 3.
> >> 
> >> I'm not really sure what you mean here, it is relatively easy for tmux
> >> to automatically fix up the terminfo entry outside if needed but I think
> >> tmux-in-screen is rare enough for it not be much of a worry.
> > 
> > yes - but some users do set TERM=screen, just to make life interesting
> 
> ?? I'm probably misunderstanding. But tmux, like screen, sets
> TERM=screen if I don't configure anything else. I'm launching
> tmux from xterm-256color, and (have to) set 
> set-option -g default-terminal screen-256color
> in tmux.conf if I want 256 colors - what's wrong with that?
> 
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