Re: Termite's terminfo

[IFo Hancroft]

Hey!

By functionality, I didn't mean color. I may be missunderstanding some 
things about how terminal functionality is specified and used so what I 
was saying may be wrong. As for $TERM, I am not sure what caused it. I 
am sure it's not hard coded check on $TERM in ncurses, I am just saying 
that I did change my $TERM var as a fast way to start using 
termite.terminfo as opposed to xterm-termite.terminfo in order to test 
it. The functionality in question I was losing during that was the 
dynamic titles in the terminal. I did still have Vim for example, change 
the title (as far as I can remember) but things like sshing into a 
server stopped showing the new host in the title and Weechat stopped 
changing the title. I will recompile Termite in the next couple of days, 
making it actually present itself as termite, so I don't have to change 
$TERM in .bashrc and test again.

P.S. What do you think would be a good reading material so I can better 
understand what different terminal capabilities are available (in 
general, not on a specific terminal), how are they determined and how is 
each described, so I can better understand creating a terminal's terminfo

On 10/8/19 1:10 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 12:42:18PM +0300, IFo Hancroft wrote:
> > I have just found something interesting. If I change my $TERM to termite as
> > opposed to xterm-termite, I lose functionality. I haven't
>
> "functionality" wasn't mentioned.
>
> Perhaps you're seeing this in GNU ls, which uses its own guess about
> color based on $TERM.   On the machine I'm using at the moment,
> "dircolors -p" asserts that these do color:
>
> TERM Eterm
> TERM ansi
> TERM *color*
> TERM con[0-9]*x[0-9]*
> TERM cons25
> TERM console
> TERM cygwin
> TERM dtterm
> TERM gnome
> TERM hurd
> TERM jfbterm
> TERM konsole
> TERM kterm
> TERM linux
> TERM linux-c
> TERM mlterm
> TERM putty
> TERM rxvt*
> TERM screen*
> TERM st
> TERM terminator
> TERM tmux*
> TERM vt100
> TERM xterm*
>
> vt100's never did color.
>
> The "gnome" entry there is derived from ncurses, but rather old.
> I deprecated it in 2010:
>
> # 2010-11-20
> #       * make "vte" the principal entry defining "gnome", since GNOME terminal
> #         is merely one of several terminals whose behavior is provided by this
> #         library -TD
>
> Hardcoding checks on $TERM never was a good idea, and it's not done here :-)
>
> To put it into perspective, ncurses' terminal data has...
>
>       305 entries with 8 colors (72%)
>         1 entries with 15 colors (0%)
>        37 entries with 16 colors (9%)
>         6 entries with 52 colors (1%)
>         9 entries with 64 colors (2%)
>         6 entries with 88 colors (1%)
>        47 entries with 256 colors (11%)
>         1 entries with 512 colors (0%)
>         1 entries with 4096 colors (0%)
>        13 entries with 16777216 colors (3%)
>       426 entries with colors
>
> > compiled/recompiled termite to make it present itself as termite, so it may
> > be due to that and not the terminfo file but maybe there is no need to
> > change the terminfo file until I test further.
> >
> > On 10/7/19 7:47 AM, IFo Hancroft wrote:
> > > I have just checked the branches and versions.
> > > Termite does use a recent VTE version (I believe it is even up to date
> > > with VTE's current development version, not just the latest stable),
> > > though VTE's versions are confusing (at least for me) with being called
> > > VTE3, while being named and installed as VTE 2.91 while the version is
> > > actually 0.48.3 according to https://developer.gnome.org/vte/
> > >
> > > Anyway, my point is, Termite's terminfo can get updated to just:
> > > termite|VTE-based terminal,
> > > use=vte,
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
> > > IFo Hancroft
> > >
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