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My Monteverdi platform TUI view uses the tcell go library and it recognizes Ghostty with no problem, but today I discovered that mtr complains it doesn't recognize xterm-ghostty.

I see there's some consternation about Ghostty using its own terminfo and I feel like going ... well sonny, back in my day we had to echo terminfo into the amber 80x20 terminal CRT character by character with a lit match just to get BACKSPACE to work!

Anyway, yelling at cloud gets me nowhere. To get mtr to work I aliased it with an env var:

mtr: aliased to sudo TERM=xterm-256color mtr

But I agree with @mitchellh on that crazy issue thread. It's a terminal emulator and that's the whole fucking point of terminfo in the first place.

#ghostty #terminfo #terminalnerd

@bean @chrisvest

Mishandling is a problem to this day. Many people know of ECMA-48. Fewer have read and fully understood ECMA-35, which explains the extensible and general structure of escape and control sequences.

#terminfo #TerminalEmulators

@dani Haha 😎

I'm running a (heavily configured) #fvwm3 here. This screenshot was just for demonstration that #dos2ansi and #showansi don't depend on any configuration, so this was a completely unconfigured X session in #Xephyr, which by default runs #twm.

You can even see the test mode in #xterm can only use 8 colors (because this is what the default xterm #terminfo entry announces), still the #xterm windows launched by #showansi have full color support, they explicitly set the terminal name to "xterm-256colors".

Hi #hivemind, has anyone got the #Wyse WY-120 #serial #terminal to work correctly on #Linux with any #terminfo entries? Specifically, it has trouble with backspace/delete, arrow keys and general #curses page layout. #Halp?

PS: I've seen @veronicaexplains's wonderful video on the WY-55 but this one unforunately seems to have different behaviour.

#retro #retrocomputing #serialport #serialcommunications #termcap #tty #ttyusb #rs232 #ncurses