Date: 27 Jun 2000 04:20:56 -0700 From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> To: Andrew Johns <johnsa@kpi.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Annoying reverse hylighting in `more' 4.0-STsnap0624 Message-ID: <m24s6fv087.fsf@reader.ptw.com> In-Reply-To: Andrew Johns's message of "Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:30:09 %2B1000" References: <m2pup4zea4.fsf@reader.ptw.com> <20000626195936.G232@parish> <m21z1kxmmr.fsf@reader.ptw.com> <20000626205828.I232@parish> <m2r99jvrbr.fsf@reader.ptw.com> <m2g0pzvnwi.fsf@reader.ptw.com> <39582DD1.581CAB6D@kpi.com.au>
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NOTE: Posted to freebsd-stable incase anyone else can see the error
Andrew Johns <johnsa@kpi.com.au> writes:
> See inline comments below.
>
> Harry Putnam wrote:
> >
> > Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
> [snip]
>
> >
> > cons25|ansis|ansi80x25:\
> > :ac=l\332m\300k\277j\331u\264t\303v\301w\302q\304x\263n\305`^Da\
> > 260f\370g\361~\371.^Y-^Xh\261i^U0\333y\363z\362:\
>
> Make CERTAIN that the line above has no spaces and no end-of-line or
> carriage returns in it - it must all be on one line (although the terminal
> may wrap it for display purposes - beware of the difference)
>
> NOTE: I had to break the line for mail purposes. Also check that the VERY
> LAST character is the '\' after the ':' - there MUST NOT be any characters
> after the '\' else it will never work.
>
> Good luck this time perhaps... :)
This is turning into a real exercise in scrutiny.. Studying the original
termcap compared to termcap.tmp (edited) I see no extraneous junk in there.
Although admittedly I'm not very experienced with this.
Further this is not a huge issue, but very curious now as to what I'm
doing wrong here.
Using `vim :2374 2382 list' to see all characters it looks ok but
still I get the same output when running `cap_mkdb'. Then my term cap
is trashed, so that trying to start emacs to view the file termcap
gives me .."terminal type "cons25" is not powerful enough to run
Emacs ....."
And `man chmod' shows no highlighting whatever
OK. `cp termcap-orig termcap; cap_mkdb termcap'
Back to square one. Everything works as before. (White Reverse
video highlighting at `man <cmd>')
So, in an effort to make sure I only replace:
:tc=cons25w:
with:
:us=\E[40;34;1m:ue=\E[m:tc=cons25w:
I tried using tools so as not to rely on my eyesight too much:
# ed termcap-orig
188977
2379p
:tc=cons25w:
2379 s/:tc=cons25w/:us=\\\E[40;34;1m:ue=\\\E[m:tc=cons25w:/
2379p
:us=\E[40;34;1m:ue=\E[m:tc=cons25w:
w termcap.tmp
18999
q
# diff termcap-orig termcap.tmp
2379c2379
< :tc=cons25w:
---
> :us=\E[40;34;1m:ue=\E[m:tc=cons25w:
# cp termcap.tmp termcap
Now running `cap_mkdb termcap' produces the same output:
cap_mkdb: record not tc expanded: cons25|ansis|ansi80x25
cap_mkdb: record not tc expanded: cons25-m|ansis-mono|ansi80x25-mono
cap_mkdb: record not tc expanded: cons30|ansi80x30
cap_mkdb: record not tc expanded: cons30-m|ansi80x30-mono
cap_mkdb: record not tc expanded: cons43|ansi80x43
cap_mkdb: record not tc expanded: cons43-m|ansi80x43-mono
cap_mkdb: record not tc expanded: cons50|ansil|ansi80x50
cap_mkdb: record not tc expanded: cons50-m|ansil-mono|ansi80x50-mono
cap_mkdb: record not tc expanded: cons60|ansi80x60
cap_mkdb: record not tc expanded: cons60-m|ansi80x60-mono
Which trashes termcap :
# emacs termcap
emacs: Terminal type "cons25" is not powerful enough to run Emacs.
It lacks the ability to position the cursor.
If that is not the actual type of terminal you have,
use the Bourne shell command `TERM=... export TERM' (C-shell:
`setenv TERM ...') to specify the correct type. It may be necessary
to do `unset TERMCAP' (C-shell: `unsetenv TERMCAP') as well.
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