Long commands on multiple lines

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The problem doesn't appear with "less" only.
I can do it with "man" for example:
$ man printf
WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
I just need to remove the ~/.terminfo directory to get this problem.
So, "less" and "man" use this terminfo file.

But, you found, congratulations!

My terminfo entry was correct but the entry in my /etc/termcap file was incorrect.

So, I found the termcap file in the rxvt-unicode code source archive:
$ find . -name "*.termcap"
./doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.termcap

Then I add these lines to the /etc/termcap file.

Now it works good: long commands are on multiple lines :)

Now I am wondering why "less" and "man" applications use my terminfo entry whereas the "rxvt-unicode" application use the old termcap file to display correctly the long commands...

Have you an idea about this?

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De: "Marc Lehmann" <schmorp at schmorp.de>
À: "spam spam spam spam" <spam.spam.spam.spam at free.fr>
Cc: rxvt-unicode at lists.schmorp.de
Envoyé: Lundi 6 Août 2012 18:04:22
Objet: Re: Long commands on multiple lines

On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 02:51:11PM +0200, spam.spam.spam.spam at free.fr wrote:
> Indeed, if I remove the terminfo file:
> Then I got problems using terminal applications:

And you have the problem in "less" or in another application? Did you tets
that other applciation?

> Also, I added an entry into my /etc/termcap file:

You need to use the corretc entry, and the corretc syntax. Yours is neither.

> The only solution which works for the moment is to set TERM=vt100.

That's a good indication that your program needs termcpa and is lacking it.

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

Same reason why you killed your parents, I guess :)

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