On 2023-07-28 12:37 +0200, Birger Schacht wrote: > On 7/28/23 11:14, Diederik de Haas wrote: >> Sorry if this is a dumb question, but will it (automatically) still get the >> latest foot terminfo 'data'? > > Not a dumb question at all and the answer is no. A quote from foots > INSTALL.md > >> As of ncurses 2021-07-31, ncurses includes a version of foot’s >> terminfo. The recommendation is to use those, and only install the >> terminfo definitions from this git repo if the system’s ncurses >> predates 2021-07-31. >> But, note that the foot terminfo definitions in ncurses’ lack the >> non-standard capabilities. This mostly affects tmux; without them, >> terminal-overrides must be configured to enable truecolor >> support. For this reason, it is possible to install “our” terminfo >> definitions as well, either in a non-default location, or under a >> different name. >> Both have their set of issues. > [...] >> Hence the recommendation to simply use ncurses’ terminfo definitions >> if available. > > I am considering reintroducing foots terminfo definitions in a > separate package - apparently alpine ships them in > `foot-extra-terminfo` and with the terminfo name `foot-extra`.
I have not checked alpine, but Arch Linux does that, see https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/foot-terminfo/. > But I'm not sure yet if its worth it. There are a few user defined capabilities which will probably not make it into ncurses anytime soon. See https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/wiki#user-content-foot-s-terminfo-vs-ncurses-terminfo. Cheers, Sven
