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Re: Solved: Emacs/gdb troubles



rob@mars.org (Rob Leslie)  wrote on 29.02.96 in <199603010024.TAA05558@deimos.mars.org>:

> Irk. I'm getting warmer. (Sorry for all the spam on this subject... sigh)
>
> If I run emacs with TERMCAP set in my environment, gdb runs fine. If not, I
> have problems. I usually start emacs from my window manager, which doesn't
> have TERMCAP defined.
>
> The following allows M-x gdb to work:
>
>   TERMCAP="" emacs

> Any more ideas? There are two distinct problems here, although the first one
> apparently has a workaround (set TERMCAP before running emacs?).

I think the problem is that the old termcap file is not (and never was - I  
first noticed that in Slackware, I think) compatible with ncurses.

I believe we should either

(a) drop the old termcap file, or

(b) use one that's compatible with ncurses.

>From way back when I compiled that thing myself, I seem to remember  
there's some way to have ncurses generate a termcap file from its terminfo  
db. Maybe we should investigate this. (Or the maintainer of ncurses  
should.)

MfG Kai


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