Re: lib/46366: netbsd-6 curses breaks xemacs

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/46366; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: lib/46366: netbsd-6 curses breaks xemacs
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:21:59 +0000

 On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 01:55:00PM +0000, Hauke Fath wrote:
  >     On netbsd-6, XEmacs 21.4.22 (editors/xemacs package) comes up
  >     in terminal mode (xemacs -nw') with an offset, see
  >     <http://la.causeuse.org/hauke/NetBSD/xemacs-netbsd6.xwd.bz2>
  >     - display with xwud(1).
  > 
  >     Before netbsd-6, XEmacs worked just fine on NetBSD.
 
 This is a known issue with emacs and terminfo vs. termcap, but I can't
 remember what causes it or what the fix is.
 
 I believe you need to tell emacs at configure time that it's using
 terminfo, and then it'll behave.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost