Re: kitty terminfo diverges from upstream

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 12:12:47PM +0000, Nick Hu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Would you care to elaborate on the issues you mentioned? As an end-user,
> it's rather frustrating having to either manually set TERM=kitty or copy
> terminfo files around. However, I don't see any meaningful reason why this
> should be different.

The proper tool for comparing terminal descriptions is infocmp

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/infocmp.1m.html

There's a reasonably up-to-date terminal database here:

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.html#download_database
https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#toc-_Kitty
 
I'll update it in a week or two to reflect

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2020-11/msg00003.html

You might want to read the FAQ (which addresses this particular issue):

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#dbupdate

...and possibly go back and reread that issue #879,
which provides ample material for you to answer your question.

> Kind regards,
> 
> Nick
> 
> On Mon, 16 Nov 2020, 08:56 Thomas Dickey, <dickey@his.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 03:28:23AM +0000, Nick Hu wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > ncurses bundles a terminfo file for kitty terminal, however it differs
> > > from the upstream terminfo file [1].
> > >
> > > I've attached the outputs of `TERM=xterm-kitty infocmp`, `TERM=kitty
> > > infocmp`, as well as a diff. For historical reasons, the former refers
> > > to the terminfo bundled with kitty (upstream), and the latter refers
> > > to the one included with ncurses. I am guessing (although this is
> > > really a guess) that simply the ncurses one needs updating. I've also
> > > reported this on the kitty bug tracker here [2].
> > >
> > > [1]:
> > https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/master/terminfo/kitty.terminfo
> > > [2]:
> > https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/879#issuecomment-727708887
> >
> > sorry - no.  There's differences, but almost all reflecting problems in
> > kitty.
> >
> > regards, etc.
> >
> > --
> > Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
> > https://invisible-island.net
> > ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
> >

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