Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 09:51:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Dan Mack <mack@macktronics.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: documentation nit / TERMINFO in ncurses man pages Message-ID: <7f3334ff-cdfa-0de-5640-8f9d519fce@macktronics.com>
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I recently logged into one of my FreeBSD systems from an alacritty
terminal. FreeBSD didn't have a termcap entry for alacritty so I
generated one with tic and all was well. However, I noticed the
following issues with the TERM* related tools (I guess this is all from
contrib/ncurses in /usr/src).
Specifically, the issue is for example - the tic(1M) man page says in the
FILES section:
/usr/share/misc/terminfo/?/*
Compiled terminal description database.
However, when you run tic(1M), the compiled terminal files are actually
placed in /usr/share/terminfo/?/* . I thought I could create a simple
one line fix by re-defining the definition for *d in the manpage, however,
it looks like there there might be a need to create two separate directory
variables instead.
On FreeBSD-Current HEAD (2d3614fb132b1cb8efd1e0accdd0c98ce6893efa) I am
seeing two directories in use:
/usr/share/terminfo/? - compiled entries created by tic(1M)
and
/usr/share/misc - contains the files termcap and termcap.db
Looks like this directory reference is set to *d here in the tic manpage:
18259542b2f8f contrib/ncurses/man/tic.1m 2000-10-11 07:31:01 +0000 37)
.ds d @TERMINFO@
Since this is also set in alot of other places, we probably need someone
to make some sort of decision :-)
Dan
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