git: 2a50a9de8340 - main - terminfo: add terminfo database

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> In message <202102251327.11PDR4eC083842 at gitrepo.freebsd.org>, Baptiste 
> Daroussi
> n writes:
> > The branch main has been updated by bapt:
> >
> > URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=2a50a9de8340f08bd876e9e5993332ae
> > 14376f80
> >
> > commit 2a50a9de8340f08bd876e9e5993332ae14376f80
> > Author:     Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org>
> > AuthorDate: 2021-02-23 16:17:32 +0000
> > Commit:     Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org>
> > CommitDate: 2021-02-25 13:25:32 +0000
> >
> >     terminfo: add terminfo database
> >     
> >     Tested by:      manu, jbeich
> > ---
> >  share/Makefile          |  1 +
> >  share/terminfo/Makefile | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 35 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/share/Makefile b/share/Makefile
> > index c4e12b05f7db..d6854b230ae5 100644
> > --- a/share/Makefile
> > +++ b/share/Makefile
> > @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ SUBDIR=	${_colldef} \
> >  	${_syscons} \
> >  	tabset \
> >  	termcap \
> > +	terminfo \
> >  	${_timedef} \
> >  	${_vt} \
> >  	${_zoneinfo}
> > diff --git a/share/terminfo/Makefile b/share/terminfo/Makefile
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..7bb11f3fdf24
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/share/terminfo/Makefile
> > @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
> > +PACKAGE=	runtime
> > +
> > +.PATH: ${SRCTOP}/contrib/ncurses/misc
> > +TINFOBUILDDIR=	${.OBJDIR}/builddir
> > +CLEANDIRS+=	builddir
> > +
> > +.include <src.tools.mk>
> > +
> > +.if !defined(_SKIP_BUILD)
> > +all: terminfo
> > +.endif
> > +META_TARGETS+=	terminfo install-terminfo
> > +
> > +terminfo: terminfo.src
> > +	mkdir -p ${TINFOBUILDDIR}
> > +	${TIC_CMD} -x -o ${TINFOBUILDDIR} ${.ALLSRC}
> > +
> > +.if make(*install*)
> > +TINFOS!=	 cd ${TINFOBUILDDIR} && find * -type f | LC_ALL=C sort
> > +TINFOSDIRS=	${TINFOS:C/(.).*/\1/g:O:u}
> > +.endif
> > +
> > +beforeinstall: install-terminfo
> > +install-terminfo:
> > +	mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/terminfo
> > +	cd ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/terminfo; mkdir -p ${TINFOSDIRS}
> > +.for f in ${TINFOS}
> > +	${INSTALL} ${TAG_ARGS} \
> > +	    -o ${BINOWN} -g ${BINGRP} -m ${NOBINMODE} \
> > +	    ${TINFOBUILDDIR}/${f} ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/terminfo/${f}
> > +.endfor
> > +
> > +.include <bsd.prog.mk>
> > +
> >
> 
> I think this had some unintended consequences, a POLA violation that should 
> be documented. Our termcap didn't support alternate screen buffers while 
> terminfo does. Termcap did through t_te and t_ti but we didn't use them. 
> Terminfo as delivered from the ncurses factory does supply rmcup and smcup; 
> our fullscreen apps such as nvi and top see them and use the alternate 
> screen buffer.
> 
> The use of the alternate screen buffer is one of the things I hate about 
> Linux. After running vi or top I expect the output to remain on the screen 
> so I can use some bit of information in my next command. We now have this 
> behaviour too.

Oh, I so hate that mis-feature of Linux, please please tell me there is
a simple knob to turn this off?  I believe LESS also does this kind
of stuff, or atleast "man" on linux does, and that pees me off to no
end when I quit the man page and what I wanted is no longer on the screen.


> The alternate screen buffer was added to xterm an ice age ago. Most modern 
> terminal emulators support it. As much as I feel the need to yank out rmcup 
> an smcup from our terminfo database, we are using a feature, as distasteful 
> as it may feel. This change probably needs a relnotes=yes and an UPDATING 
> entry advising users that they can either change $TERM to xterm1, vt100, or 
> some other terminal definition that doesn't support rmcup and smcup, or 
> learn to like it.
> 
> OTOH, maybe this is something we as a community don't really want and we 
> remove the rmcup and smcup definitions from our terminfo database. 
> Personally, I believe this is progress -- progress I'm not particularly 
> enamoured with but progress nonetheless. But I think we need to discuss, 
> come to some sort of decision and document it.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
> FreeBSD UNIX:  <cy at FreeBSD.org>   Web:  https://FreeBSD.org
> NTP:           <cy at nwtime.org>    Web:  https://nwtime.org
> 
> 	The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
> 
> 
> 

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org