[slang-users] Lookup of terminfo files

[Jörg Sommer <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

due to a bug in ncurses in Debian, my attention was drawn to the lookup
of terminfo files in S‐Lang. Currently, the list in sltermin.c is

static SLCONST char *Terminfo_Dirs [] =
{
   "", /* $HOME/.terminfo */
   "", /* $TERMINFO */
#ifdef MISC_TERMINFO_DIRS
   MISC_TERMINFO_DIRS,
#endif
   "/usr/share/terminfo",
   "/usr/lib/terminfo",
   "/usr/share/lib/terminfo",
   "/etc/terminfo",
   "/lib/terminfo",
   "/usr/local/lib/terminfo",
   NULL,
};


Wouldn't it be better to check /etc/terminfo and /usr/local/lib/terminfo
before the other directories? This would give system administrators the
possibility to override terminfo files from the distribution system.

The library ncurses looks at the directory given in $TERMINFO before
looking at $HOME/.terminfo; see ncurses(3). Maybe, S‐Lang should also do
it this order.

Bye, Jörg.
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