Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net>]

Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:

> You should set TERM to 'macosx'. If things don't work, just fix them
> in the terminfo data and rerun tic.

that's more/less what I was advising.

> Note: you shouldn't use the ncurses that come with Mac OS X. They are
> buggy.

hmm - to the best of my knowledge, the "ncurses that come with Mac OS X"
are some version of ncurses, just like Debian/stable, Debian/testing, etc.

While I recall a handful of platform-specific bugs, there's no reason
why he can't use the terminfo, etc.

Are you concerned with a specific bug, or is this just a suggestion to
use Linux instead?

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