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Suggest to upgrade ncurses if Emacs aborts inside tparam1.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:15:04 +0000
parents 50052f8ef824
children e083ef90fdaf
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214 * Clicking C-mouse-2 in the scroll bar doesn't split the window. 214 * Clicking C-mouse-2 in the scroll bar doesn't split the window.
215 215
216 This currently doesn't work with scroll-bar widgets (and we don't know 216 This currently doesn't work with scroll-bar widgets (and we don't know
217 a good way of implementing it with widgets). If Emacs is configured 217 a good way of implementing it with widgets). If Emacs is configured
218 --without-toolkit-scroll-bars, C-mouse-2 on the scroll bar does work. 218 --without-toolkit-scroll-bars, C-mouse-2 on the scroll bar does work.
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220 * Emacs aborts inside the function `tparam1'.
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222 This can happen if Emacs was built without terminfo support, but the
223 terminal's capabilities use format that is only supported by terminfo.
224 If your system has ncurses installed, this might happen if your
225 version of ncurses is broken; upgrading to a newer version of ncurses
226 and reconfiguring and rebuilding Emacs should solve this.
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228 All modern systems support terminfo, so even if ncurses is not the
229 problem, you should look for a way to configure Emacs so that it uses
230 terminfo when built.
219 231
220 * Colors are not available on a tty or in xterm. 232 * Colors are not available on a tty or in xterm.
221 233
222 Emacs 21 supports colors on character terminals and terminal 234 Emacs 21 supports colors on character terminals and terminal
223 emulators, but this support relies on the terminfo or termcap database 235 emulators, but this support relies on the terminfo or termcap database