Mercurial > emacs
changeset 42521:72a5aec83cab
Suggest to upgrade ncurses if Emacs aborts inside tparam1.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:15:04 +0000 |
| parents | bb48a7a20534 |
| children | bf0d83587878 |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Fri Jan 04 08:27:11 2002 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Fri Jan 04 10:15:04 2002 +0000 @@ -217,6 +217,18 @@ a good way of implementing it with widgets). If Emacs is configured --without-toolkit-scroll-bars, C-mouse-2 on the scroll bar does work. +* Emacs aborts inside the function `tparam1'. + +This can happen if Emacs was built without terminfo support, but the +terminal's capabilities use format that is only supported by terminfo. +If your system has ncurses installed, this might happen if your +version of ncurses is broken; upgrading to a newer version of ncurses +and reconfiguring and rebuilding Emacs should solve this. + +All modern systems support terminfo, so even if ncurses is not the +problem, you should look for a way to configure Emacs so that it uses +terminfo when built. + * Colors are not available on a tty or in xterm. Emacs 21 supports colors on character terminals and terminal