If you get it updated in ncurses and drop me a note privately I will
update termtypes.master.


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:15:14AM +0100, Nils R wrote:
> Roberto E. Vargas Caballero schrieb am 26.03.2014 07:47:
> > > I solved it (for the moment) by patching st, as patching st
> > > is something you most likely do anyways. The patch, including
> > > a description, can be found on the suckless wiki [1].
> > 
> > But this solution is a bit tricky, becuase you will have problems
> > in the moment you connect to another system where the definition
> > of st-git is not present. Maybe the best solution can be update the
> > definition of st in OpenBSD.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > --
> > Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
> > 
> >
> 
> While this is true, you'll most likely always have problems using 
> st from git, because on most operating systems, only the latest stable
> st (version 0.4.1) is available as a package, and there have been 
> massive changes to the terminfo file since then.  Problems with 
> a new st and outdated terminfo information were the motivation for 
> this thread, so letting users know that the terminfo is missing on 
> remote machines is IMHO a better solution than to let them think
> everything is fine.
> 
> For now, it would be good to update the terminfo to 0.4.1 (upstream in
> ncurses and in openbsd), so that at least the version from ports can 
> work flawlessly.  I will set up a diff.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Nils

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