Re: patch to make $TERMINFO special

[Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 9 May 2011 08:51:38 -0700
Danek Duvall <duvall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What problem is the addenv() call trying to fix?
> 
> It didn't actually seem that TERMINFO was being set in my shell if I
> didn't do that.  In fact, I got the message
> 
>     can't find terminal definition for xterm-256color
> 
> when I change $TERMINFO, and I get that with your patch as well.  It
> also just doesn't work -- colors are wrong, tput colors comes back
> empty, as does echoti colors, and the terminal handling is absolutely
> awful, just as if nothing had happened.

You are remembering to export it from the shell ("export TERMINFO=...")?
The shell doesn't do that by default and I don't think there's any good
reason to make it do so --- every other variable that needs exporting
you have to mark explicitly for export, unless it was imported.

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