Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 10:09:10 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: randy@psg.com, Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> Subject: Re: termcap under single luser Message-ID: <20080804140909.GA16243@saltmine.radix.net> In-Reply-To: <48970C5E.6000406@andric.com> References: <200808041330.m74DUsg9075683@lurza.secnetix.de> <48970C5E.6000406@andric.com>
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On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 04:04:14PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 2008-08-04 15:30, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > This seems to be a problem with nvi. AFAIR the original
> > BSD vi would run fine without a termcap. It would enter
> > open-mode automatically in that case. Among the various
> > vi clones, elvis implements open-mode, but nvi does not.
> >
> > Anyway, I vote for moving termcap to /etc.
>
> Please note that /rescue/vi does NOT read termcap from /etc, at least
> not on RELENG_7. (The ncurses library only seems to use $HOME/.termcap
> and /usr/share/misc/termcap, nothing else.)
That behavior can be overridden (man ncurses):
TERMPATH
If TERMCAP does not hold a file name then ncurses checks the
TERMPATH symbol. This is a list of filenames separated by spaces
or colons (i.e., ":") on Unix, semicolons on OS/2 EMX. If the
TERMPATH symbol is not set, ncurses looks in the files /etc/term-
cap, /usr/share/misc/termcap and $HOME/.termcap, in that order.
--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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