[Bug-zile] Mac Terminal.app problems: TERM=nsterm FTW

[Reuben Thomas]

Setting TERM=nsterm fixes #33907 for me (and #33908 is unaffected; as
I said in the bug report, I cannot repro it on a freshly installed
Lion machine).

Further, a terminfo definition for nsterm is distributed with ncurses,
so setting TERM=nsterm on the Mac is acceptable for general use, e.g.
ssh-ing, at least provided the remote machines have a reasonably
recent ncurses with all its terminfo definitions installed. This at
least takes care of a large swathe of uses (e.g. current Linux distros
will all be fine).

Hence, with no changes to Zile, we can just say "to get working
function keys and Ctrl-H, set TERM=nsterm in your Terminal prefs".

I do not think this is too much to expect of users of a proprietary OS
that ships with broken-by-default settings. (Similarly, I'm not
worried about users who need a TERM setting that works on older remote
machines, e.g. xterm or xterm-color: they can reconfigure Terminal.app
appropriately so that it works with the default setting of TERM.)

How does that sound?

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