Included with screen's source is the following file:
terminfo/screeninfo.src
This file is the authoritative terminfo source for screen
(right?)...
I ask because it does not have entries for hpa or vpa, but
screen's man page indicates that maybe it should, specifically:
THE VIRTUAL TERMINAL
...
ESC [ Pn G Cursor horizontal position
ESC [ Pn ` same as above
ESC [ Pn d Cursor vertical position
I would not have noticed (screen has always worked well) except
that I encountered a problem when running VMWare's python-based
installer while in a screen window. The installer would silently
fail and the log would show this (from /var/log/vmware-installer):
sys.stdout.write(curses.tparm(curses.tigetstr('hpa'), 0))
TypeError: tparm() argument 1 must be string, not None
I think that's python-ese for your terminfo has no 'hpa'...
My underlying terminal is xterm-rxvt, which has these entries:
hpa=\E[%i%p1%dG, vpa=\E[%i%p1%dd
I added the following to my local copy of the terminfo source
file for screen (not sure if this is right):
hpa=\E[G, vpa=\E[d,
And then I used tic to update my terminfo DB and that fixed it...
I am wondering if the change I made should be included in
screen's source distribution, i.e. in here:
terminfo/screeninfo.src
Is there some reason why that would be bad? If so, what would be
the proper fix in this situation...?
Thanks in advance for your insights!
- Tor
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