bin/80256: /rescue/vi doesn't work without terminal database
in /usr
Garance A Drosehn
gad at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jun 18 16:42:54 GMT 2005
At 1:57 PM +0100 6/18/05, Brian Candler wrote:
>[from freebsd-current]
>On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 12:48:04AM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
>> >Yes, I'm aware of PR bin/80256, but that appears to stalled in
>> >a state of limbo.
>>
>> I've also been meaning to do something about that idea of a small
>> termcap file. I don't remember what the PR says, but someone had a
>> good idea of generating the minimal termcap file from the standard
>> one, and putting that in /rescue. I have a few ideas of my own so
>> the system would automatically pick up that minimal file. Just a
>> matter of finding the time to test it all... :-)
>
>I started that PR. Subsequently there was a short discussion off-list
>where it turned out that Warner Losh had a compact termcap file
>which could be committed - it's attached below. However nothing
>further happened.
I am aware of Warner's termcap file, and I had talked with him earlier
this year about committing something along those lines. I forget if
I was going to commit his exact termcap file, or some auto-generated
alternative, but I do have the emails around here somewhere. I know
that *at the time* I knew what I had planned to do, and that Warner
had nodded in general agreement to whatever that was...
Right now I am busy finishing off some changes to `env', which will
fix some problems introduced by a different change that I made earlier
this year. Once I have those changes sorted out, I'll go back and
look at my emails on this termcap idea. (Unless, of course, anyone
else wants to do it before I get to it!)
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad at FreeBSD.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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