On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 10:54:02PM -0400, John Kerr Anderson wrote:
> Hi I recently tried to change some of my terminfo settings and now
> everything terminal related runs poorly. I have 2 vt320 terminals and
> wanted to change the setting variable smkx but now everything runs
> horribly. I ca
>>"Harry" == Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Harry> I think there are some problems with it, but not really prepared to
Harry> give a full analysis. One thing you might consider is that a regular
Harry> emacs package from source would have had no problems with the
Harry> directory h
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If this analysis is correct, there is no bug in emacs (well,
> there is nothing emacs21 packages can do to avoid this). Just don't
> go removing dirs ;-). I generally put things in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp,
> which takes precedence over pa
>>"Harry" == Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Harry> Attached is a typscript report of this problem.
Harry> The `ls' commands I used didn't come thru in the typescript so I've
Harry> gone thru and annotated what appeared in them.
Hmmm. I note that the files removed are not emac
Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Its pretty clear that I'm using it wrong but I did try to follow the
>> example listed there. What is expected at `pattern'
>
> {foo|bar} means foo OR bar
>
> ~>dpkg -S emacs21
>
> will work, as will
>
> ~>dpkg --search emacs21
>
> or
>
> ~>dpkg -S /us
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can you expand on this? Which files are missing? As far as I
> can see, when I reinstall emacs21, it re-downloads the .deb for me,
> and installs it. (a script/log of the failure would be helpful too)
I'd have to reruin the insall now to type
>>"Harry" == Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Harry> I see `apt-get --reinstall' is kind of close. But barfs if files are
Harry> missing or something.
Harry> Rather than piece it togetther with file date and such, I thought to
Harry> just reinstall emacs21. But it barfs on the missi
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I see `apt-get --reinstall' is kind of close. But barfs if files are
> missing or something. Even with `apt-get install --force-yes package'
> It barfs if you've scrubbed some of the files it expects to find.
Hmmm... I usually just do a dpkg -i on th
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:07:10AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Is just the ticket I think but my trials with it only get an error
> message:
>
> A usage statement and "Bash --search command not found" with the
> command line indicated there:
> dpkg {-S|--search} pattern # search package from inst
The man page means that you either use
dpkg -S more
or
dpkg --search more
{} has a meaning for the shell.
Ionut
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:07:10AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
> message:
>
> A usage statement and "Bash --search command not found" with the
> command line indicated there:
> dpk
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Emacs is not finding certain include files for X11 and won't compile
>> with X11 support.
>
> Like redhat's -devel programs, most of the include files in Debian are
> in lib*-dev packages. For the X libraries, I currently have installed
Ahh cool.. Thank
Matijs van Zuijlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 02:56:02AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> People have told me the debian package manager is more sophisticated
>> yet, and can pull up more detailed info. What do I need to read to get
>> on top of those kind of commands?
>
>
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 05:06:02AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
...
> things working. However I ran into other problems. Emacs is not
> finding certain include files for X11 and won't compile with X11
> support. I didn't save the error output since I don't really want to
In debian a lot of libs a
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > You can fix emacs by using
> >
> >apt-get install termcap-compat
> >
> >
> > It's about time that emacs supported terminfo but unfortunately there
> > is no one with the time to do the work.
>
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Emacs is not finding certain include files for X11 and won't compile
> with X11 support.
Like redhat's -devel programs, most of the include files in Debian are
in lib*-dev packages. For the X libraries, I currently have installed
xaw3dg-dev
xlib6g-dev
Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You can fix emacs by using
>
>apt-get install termcap-compat
>
>
> It's about time that emacs supported terminfo but unfortunately there
> is no one with the time to do the work.
Thanks for the usage tips for dpkg. And the above install did get
thin
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 02:56:02AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
> People have told me the debian package manager is more sophisticated
> yet, and can pull up more detailed info. What do I need to read to get
> on top of those kind of commands?
I've found
http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ch-package
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I may have jacked up my terminfo database.
>
> I built emacs from sources today. A very recent beta of emacs-21.
> Something like the rpm commands `rpm -qf ' will tell
> exactly what package a file belongs to. Then with that info you can
> say r
On 21 Jun 2000, Carl Johnson wrote:
CJ> A 'man -k terminfo' will show you some useful commands. I think that
CJ> you use infocmp to decompile to source, and then use tic to re-compile
CJ> after editing. You might want to use a local directory as described
CJ> in the tic manpage.
thanks, i alrea
"Petr [Dingo] Dvorak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hey there,
>
> is there any way to decompile compiled terminfo files back to their source
> state so i can modify/add to them ?
A 'man -k terminfo' will show you some useful commands. I think that
you use infocmp to decompile to source, and th
Greg Wooledge wrote:
Aaron Stromas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> while logging to a solaris box and setting back the display to my
debian
> linux box vi misbehaves. some time ago i stumbled upon a fix - there
is
> a terminfo entry that needs to be compiled and the TERMINFO environment
> variable h
Aaron Stromas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> while logging to a solaris box and setting back the display to my debian
> linux box vi misbehaves. some time ago i stumbled upon a fix - there is
> a terminfo entry that needs to be compiled and the TERMINFO environment
> variable has to be set to point
> "timothy" == timothy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi! The export, or 'set' in this case term variable works.
> However, I modifed the .login file as you suggested set
> TERMINFO=~/.terminfo, but it still doesn't recognize
> xterm-debian when I login. :(. Any ideas? The she
Hi!
The export, or 'set' in this case term variable works.
However, I modifed the .login file as you suggested
set TERMINFO=~/.terminfo, but it still doesn't recognize xterm-debian
when I login. :(. Any ideas? The shell is csh.
Many Thanx,
Timothy
> I know of two possibilities...
>
> The simpl
> "timothy" == timothy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am telnetting an AIX machine and trying to run pine and
> it says "No terminfo entry for "XTERM-DEBIAN"." in xterm,
> and similarly for when i'm in rxvt. Before my terminfo was
> just "xterm" i think, and it worked, how d
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