Questions tagged [terminfo]

is for termcap and terminfo capabilities in Emacs. The termcap entry for terminal type `emacs` is ordinarily put in the `TERMCAP` environment variable of subshells.

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Where is terminfo entry for emacs?
Why use terminfo file distributed with Emacs to solve cygwin problems?

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emacs: cannot open terminfo database file

I've created a new terminfo entry to enable italics in my terminal, as described here. The new terminfo entry looks like: xterm-256color-italic|xterm with 256 colors and italic, sitm=\E[em, ritm=\E[23m, use=xterm-256color, and it's saved to…

fonts terminal-emacs terminfo

asked Jun 18 '19 at 15:21

quanticle

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Any way to disable tab usage in display algorithm?

When emacs displays buffer text to the terminal, along with whatever ANSI (or other termcap/terminfo) sequences it uses, it will occasionally use ordinary ASCII TAB characters to move the cursor. Since this is an output operation, its choice to use…

terminal-emacs redisplay terminfo

asked Dec 09 '21 at 05:17

Steve Summit

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How to run tmux in Aquamacs

I quite like tmux and Aquamacs. I've recently been interested in how to integrate the two together. As far as I know, one cannot run Aquamacs within a terminal even with the Aquamacs CLI tool, so the next natural option is to run tmux in Aquamacs…

shell shell-mode aquamacs term terminfo

asked Feb 06 '16 at 00:02

GDP2

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Terminfo database in Emacs shell not updated after (text-scale-adjust)

The following sequence of commands shows that the number of columns in terminfo's database inside an Emacs shell buffer is not updated when the user decreases the size of the font with "C-x C--" (text-scale-adjust). It takes changing to anoter…

shell terminfo

asked Feb 21 '18 at 20:49

Ruy

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