Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

Ian Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: >>> - Horizontal borders in Aptitude (e.g. in the search or quit >>> dialogs) become '?' characters. >> >> This is more interesting. Those dashes look like they're double-width. I >> have >> a hunch that your locale on Debian is se

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

Thomas Dickey wrote: >> I compiled your terminfo on my Debian box, and ssh'd over with TERM >> set to 'nsterm'. A few initial observations: >> >> - Color is lost at the Bash prompt. > > bash on Debian? odd - since I thought it would be using ncurses (actually > the termcap interface). It m

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I meant recompiling ncurses, to get version 5.5. But I wonder if Apple > modified the ncurses 5.4, because tic didn't behave like under Debian. > For instance, xterm-* were installed under the 78 subdirectory instead > of the x subdirectory. hex 0x78 i

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

On 2006-07-12 10:32:59 -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is version 5.4. Recompiling ncurses 5.5 (and Mutt) fixes the > > problem. I don't know if it was specific to Mac OS X. > > ncurses 5.5 was released last fall, > so "recompiling" is not a good c

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-07-11 23:49:23 -, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Note: you shouldn't use the ncurses that come with Mac OS X. They are >> > buggy. >> >> hmm - to the best of my knowledge, the "ncurses that come with

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

On 2006-07-11 23:49:23 -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Note: you shouldn't use the ncurses that come with Mac OS X. They are > > buggy. > > hmm - to the best of my knowledge, the "ncurses that come with Mac OS X" > are some version of ncurses, just like

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should set TERM to 'macosx'. If things don't work, just fix them > in the terminfo data and rerun tic. that's more/less what I was advising. > Note: you shouldn't use the ncurses that come with Mac OS X. They are > buggy. hmm - to the best of my

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

Ian Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, meant for this to go to the list (why no Reply-To?)... tin doesn't post to email (I often followup with the same information) > Thomas Dickey wrote: > First off thank you for such a helpful response! >>> "pretty garbled" could be more than one thin

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

On 2006-07-11 12:09:45 -0700, Ian Brandt wrote: [...] > >> Backing up a little, I'd edit that line to show > >> > >> macosx|generic color xterm, > >> > >> and remove the $HOME/.terminfo/x/xterm-color and > >> $HOME/.terminfo/n/nxterm, > >> rerun tic. Then > >> > >>infocmp macosx xterm-color >

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

Sorry, meant for this to go to the list (why no Reply-To?)... Thomas Dickey wrote: First off thank you for such a helpful response! >> "pretty garbled" could be more than one thing... Here are some screen shots: >> Back

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

Ian Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to get OS X 10.4.7's Terminal.app to play nice when ssh'ing > into my Debian Etch box. > I've run `infocmp -L > xterm-color' on my Mac (I have Terminal.app set > to report xterm-color), and compiled the result on my Debian box with > the f

OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

Hi, I'm trying to get OS X 10.4.7's Terminal.app to play nice when ssh'ing into my Debian Etch box. I've run `infocmp -L > xterm-color' on my Mac (I have Terminal.app set to report xterm-color), and compiled the result on my Debian box with the following output... $ tic -svx xterm-color "xterm-