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Terminfo is a database of terminal capabilities use by applications that require information about the terminal's features.

Terminfo is a data base describing terminals, used by screen-oriented programs such as nvi(1) and rogue(1).

Terminfo describes terminals by giving a set of capabilities which they have, by specifying how to perform screen operations, and by specifying padding requirements and initialization sequences.

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Using the "alternate screen" in a bash script

The alternate screen is used by many "user-interactive" terminal applications like vim, htop, screen, alsamixer, less, ... It is like a different buffer of the terminal content, which disappears when the application exits, so the whole terminal gets…
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Screen: Cannot find terminfo entry for 'xterm-256color'

When I run screen on the remote host(running Linux), I obtain the following error: Cannot find terminfo entry for 'xterm-256color'. I am running terminal on Mac OSX Lion to access the remote host. I have googled to find out the solution to this…
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Home/End keys in zsh don't work with putty

I'm running zsh as the default shell on a Ubuntu box, and everything works fine using gnome-terminal (which as far as I know emulates xterm). When I login from a windows box via ssh and putty (which also emulates xterm) suddendly the home/end keys…
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Setupterm could not find terminal, in Python program using curses

I am trying to get a simple curses script to run using Python (with PyCharm 2.0). This is my script: import curses stdscr = curses.initscr() curses.noecho() curses.cbreak() stdscr.keypad(1) while 1: c = stdscr.getch() if c == ord('p'):…
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Setting The Environment for System.in

I'm designing a console application for a server running RedHat. The end users should be able to run this app with any terminal of their choosing. (For example; Gnome Terminal, Putty SSH/ Telnet, MS Telnet Client and others). In most terminal…
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How do I determine if a terminal is color-capable?

I would like to change a program to automatically detect whether a terminal is color-capable or not, so when I run said program from within a non-color capable terminal (say M-x shell in (X)Emacs), color is automatically turned off. I don't want to…
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tmux man-page search highlighting

When I search in, for example, man ls while in a tmux session, the search strings don't appear highlighted - the page jumps down so that the search string is on the top line of the buffer, as expected, but it's not highlighted. Doing the same thing…
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bash script, erase previous line?

In lots of Linux programs, like curl, wget, and anything with a progress meter, they have the bottom line constantly update, every certain amount of time. How do I do that in a bash script? All I can do now is just echo a new line, and that's not…
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Zsh zle shift selection

How to use shift to select part of the commandline (like in many text editors) ?
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ncurses- KEY_ENTER is fail

I've been trying to teach myself ncurses and I'm loving it so far. However, I'm trying to write a small little text editor like pico or nano. I've got it set up fairly well so far. I created a function to map the keys. No matter what I do I can not…
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top 'xterm': unknown terminal type

I have an error when run TOP command: >top 'xterm': unknown terminal type. > echo $TERM xterm > echo $DISPLAY DYSPLAY: Undefined variable. > cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago) > ls…
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tput: unknown terminal

I'm on AIX-6.1 and I'm trying to make use of tput inside my $PS1. I've confirmed I can't even run tput from the commandline. Following is my session: # tput unknown terminal "xterm" # echo $TERM xterm # tput -T ansi unknown terminal "ansi" In…
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ZSH Bindkey Reverse Lookup

Can anyone tell me what the key sequence is for these? I know if I do cat and type key presses I can get the code for it but how do I reverse that process to figure out what to press for beginning-of-line, for example? bindkey '^[^[[D'…
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What is application mode in terminals/zsh/terminfo?

In several places I see some commands to ensure that terminal (?) is in application mode, then terminfo database to set/query key bindings will work. I tried to find what is this application mode, but I had no success. What is this application mode?…
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Vertical tmux borders dashed only when using iTerm

At my new job I'll need to use a mac, and I'm trying to use tmux with iTerm version 2. While horizontal borders appear to be displayed with the proper ACS box-drawing characters[1], the vertical borders are dashed. This is not a problem in…
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