sysutils/tmux - strange behaviour with new version 2.4

[Freddie Cash]

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> wrote:

> Freddie Cash wrote on 2017/05/16 21:27:
>
>> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz>
>> wrote:
>>
>
> [snip]
>
> # env | grep TERM
>>> TERM=screen-256color
>>>
>>> And missing lines are different on each run.
>>>
>>>
>> ​Just curious, but what happens if you set TERM=tmux instead of
>> TERM=screen?  Newer versions of tmux accept that as an option, and the
>> termcap/terminfo should be cleaner/more up-to-date than the screen
>> setting.​
>>
>> ​From:​
>>
>> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tmux&sektion=1&apr
>> opos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+11.0-RELEASE+and+Ports
>>
>> ​"​default-terminal terminal
>>      Set the default terminal for new windows created in this session
>>      - the default value of the TERM environment variable.  For tmux
>>      to work correctly, this must be set to `screen', `tmux' or a
>>      derivative of them."
>>
>
> I tried this in ~/.tmux.conf:
>
> set -g default-terminal "tmux"
>
> But when I run tmux command I got this error:
>
> tcsh: Cannot open /etc/termcap.
> tcsh: using dumb terminal settings.
>
> I think there is no tmux entry in /etc/termcap on FreeBSD 10.3
>
> And tmux output with dumb terminal is still misbehaving.


​Yeah, looks like there's no tmux entry in termcap/terminfo on FreeBSD (at
least according to SVN web).  So much for following the man page.  ;)

I'll go back to lurking now ...

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Freddie Cash
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