How to set a terminfo entry (eterm color from Emacs)?

Question

I want to start GNU Screen from the Emacs terminal buffer. When I try to do this, I get an error message:

$ screen Cannot find terminfo entry for 'eterm-color'. 

This error suggests that I should set the terminfo entry for the color label. I tried to do this in two ways that both failed.

The first attempt was to use the TERMINFO environment variable.

My .bashrc:

 export TERMINFO=~/.terminfo 

Then I did:

 $ mkdir -p ~/.terminfo/e/ $ cp /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/23.3a/share/emacs/23.3/etc/e/* ~/.terminfo/e/ 

The eterm-color entry was not found in the terminal mode buffer. It says that it gets the eterm color from TERMCAP instead of the actual file.

 $ infocmp # Reconstructed via infocmp from file: TERMCAP eterm-color, am, mir, xenl, colors#8, cols#138, it#8, lines#41, pairs#64, bel=^G, bold=\E[1m, clear=\E[H\E[J, cr=^M, csr=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr, cub=\E[%p1%dD, cub1=^H, cud=\E[%p1%dB, cud1=^J, cuf=\E[%p1%dC, cuf1=\E[C, cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH, cuu=\E[%p1%dA, cuu1=\E[A, dch=\E[%p1%dP, dch1=\E[P, dl=\E[%p1%dM, dl1=\E[M, ed=\E[J, el=\E[K, el1=\E[1K, home=\E[H, ht=^I, ich=\E[%p1% d@ , il=\E[%p1%dL, il1=\E[L, ind=^J, invis=\E[8m, kbs=\177, kcub1=\EOD, kcud1=\EOB, kcuf1=\EOC, kcuu1=\EOA, kdch1=\E[3~, kend=\E[4~, khome=\E[1~, knp=\E[6~, kpp=\E[5~, nel=^M^J, op=\E[39;49m, rc=\E8, rev=\E[7m, rmir=\E[4l, rmso=\E[27m, rmul=\E24m, rs1=\Ec, sc=\E7, setab=\E[4%p1%dm, setaf=\E[3%p1%dm, sgr0=\E[m, smir=\E[4h, smso=\E[7m, smul=\E[4m, 

The second attempt was to use symbolic links.

 $ sudo mkdir /usr/share/terminfo/e/ $ sudo cp /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/23.3a/share/emacs/23.3/etc/e/* /usr/share/terminfo/e/ 

This happened the same as the first attempt.

Why didn't any attempt work? How can I set the terminfo entry for the eterm color label?

I am running OS X 10.6.8 and Emacs 23.3.1.

Answer 1

The following worked for me on FreeBSD.

Put the termcap entry inserted below in / usr / share / misc / termcap and run # cd /usr/share/misc/ && cap_mkdb termcap .

  # Termcap entry for eterm-color (taken from $TERMCAP set by emacs and formatted) eterm-color|Emacs term.el terminal emulator term-protocol-version 0.96:\ :am:bs:mi:pt:xn:\ :Co#8:co#166:li#48:pa#64:\ :@7=\E[4~:AB=\E[4%dm:AF=\E[3%dm:AL=\E[%dL:DC=\E[%dP:\ :DL=\E[%dM:DO=\E[%dB:IC=\E[% d@ :LE=\E[%dD:RI=\E[%dC:\ :UP=\E[%dA:al=\E[L:bl=^G:cb=\E[1K:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:\ :cl=\E[H\E[J:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:cr=^M:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:dc=\E[P:\ :dl=\E[M:do=^J:ei=\E[4l:ho=\E[H:im=\E[4h:kD=^[[3~:\ :kN=\E[6~:kP=\E[5~:kb=^?:kd=\EOB:kh=\E[1~:kl=\EOD:\ :kr=\EOC:ku=\EOA:le=^H:md=\E[1m:me=\E[m:mk=\E[8m:mr=\E[7m:\ :nd=\E[C:op=\E[39;49m:r1=\Ec:rc=\E8:sc=\E7:se=\E[27m:sf=^J:\ :so=\E[7m:ta=^I:ue=\E[m:\ :up=\E[A:us=\E[4m: