Long commands on multiple lines

[Jan Larres]

spam.spam.spam.spam at free.fr <spam.spam.spam.spam at free.fr>:
> spierre at samson:~$ infocmp vt100 > vt100.cmp
> spierre at samson:~$ sed -i s/vt100/rxvt-unicode/g vt100.cmp
> spierre at samson:~$ tic vt100.cmp
>
> [...]
>
> The only solution which works for the moment is to set TERM=vt100.

Well, of course. You tell programs that you're using rxvt-unicode, but
actually provide the configuration for vt100. No wonder the programs
get confused.

> Why it isn't possible to get the correct behavior by using
> terminfo/termcap files instead of set this TERM variable ?

Of course it is possible. rxvt-unicode comes with a terminfo file that
has the correct configuration in it. Just compile it with tic, set TERM
to rxvt-unicode (or rxvt-unicode-256color if compiled with that) and
everything should work.

Jan

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