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List:       mutt-users
Subject:    Re: Mac OS X Terminal.app, FreeBSD, ssh
From:       Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt () memoryhole ! net>
Date:       2010-05-04 19:27:33
Message-ID: 20100504192733.GA21532 () marvin ! we-be-smart ! org
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On Tuesday, May  4 at 06:37 PM, quoth Jamie Griffin:
> Yeah, I read a few old posts in the archives where you had explained 
> the benefits of setting up Terminal.app in that way but I think the 
> OP(s) problems at the time were mostly related to locales so I 
> didn't think it to be applicable to my problem.

:)

Either fortunately or unfortunately, most display issues in mutt 
involve TERM settings in some way.

> I'm using Leopard and do you happen to know if the ncurses that 
> comes with that will include nsterm-16color?

Leopard comes with the necessary stuff for several variants of nsterm, 
but not nsterm-16color. You can install your own ncurses (e.g. via 
MacPorts), which I usually do, and that *will* contain the necessary 
nsterm-16color stuff, but system-provided programs won't use it. 
*THAT* is why I first started toting around my own copy in my home 
directory. :)

> I also had a look for an /etc/termcap file or equivilent but there 
> isn't one. I gues that's why you use your own ~.termcap ?

Termcap and terminfo aren't quite the same---termcap is older and 
harder to work with. My Ubuntu install doesn't have an /etc/termcap 
file either, and that's a good thing. However, I *do* have an 
/etc/terminfo/ directory. In any event, Leopard stores its terminfo 
files in /usr/share/terminfo.

The other reason I started toting around my own copy of nsterm-16color 
is because the standard one doesn't contain descriptions for all the 
features that Apple's Terminal can provide; in particular, it does 
support an alternate display buffer (which allows programs like mutt 
or vim to restore the previous contents of the terminal when they 
exit) which the nsterm-16color file that comes with ncurses doesn't 
include. So I had to modify it (the details are in the mutt archives) 
to get exactly what I wanted... but that's me being picky. :)

~Kyle
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
                                                 -- George Bernard Shaw
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