From: "A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The meaning of nothing... ?
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 04:50:29 +0200
> Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > to get all the keys of my keyboard working with vim I looked through
> > my ~/.vimrc and found a setting ("nottybuiltin"), which I do revert
> > and now a few addtional keys (<C-F1> for example) do work correctly.
> >
> > So it seems, that the xterm256 definition, which I use, isn't
> > completly defined in my terminfo database.
> >
> > Can I "dump" (or whatever the correct nameing is) the xterm256
> > settings vim is using internally in a form which I can use to
> > correct my (buggy?) terminfo database ?
> >
> > Keep hacking!
> > mcc
> >
> >
>
> I suppose the builtin settings are found somewhere in the Vim source. After a
> little searching around, I guess you might want to look at lines 936-1082 of
> src/term.c dated 27-Aug-2006. See also src/term.h for the definition of the
> symbols used. You may or may not have to do some reformatting to correct your
> terminfo.
>
> Note that the default is 'ttybuiltin' i.e., TRUE, because, it is said, "many
> systems carry faulty termcap/terminfo databases".
>
>
> Best regars,
> Tony.
>
Hi Tony,
:)
Thanks for your reply !
I thought there would be a command ( "_ex_-command" as I have learned a
mail before :O)), which dumps the tty settings in a
terminfo/termcap-format already.
I will look into the source and will see what I can use.
Keep hacking!
mcc
