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Re: Compatability of '-256color' terminal descriptions between ncurses 6
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: Compatability of '-256color' terminal descriptions between ncurses 6.0 and ncurses 6.1 |
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Wed, 31 Jan 2018 04:17:30 -0500 |
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On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:03:47AM +0800, Vladimir Lomov wrote:
> Hello,
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> I'm using Archlinux x86_64 and recently ncurses package was updated from
> ver. 6.0+20170902-3 to ver. 6.1-3 and that makes MC (midnight-commander,
> compiled vs SLANG) fail to start with following message:
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> ```
> Unknown terminal: tmux-256color
That's expected and documented in the release notes:
https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/announce.html
slang's relying on 30+ year old binary format,
rather than using the library functions which make this portable,
and its developer really ought to upgrade.
Start here:
https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-slang.html
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