Re: lib/58034: terminfo: tmux-direct different from ncurses version

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/58034; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: NetBSD bugtracking <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
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Subject: Re: lib/58034: terminfo: tmux-direct different from ncurses version
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 11:55:41 +0100

 On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 10:45:02AM +0000, Robert Elz wrote:
 >    | And since it's the second entry in the definition, this should win,
 >  
 >  It has been a long time, but my memory of termcap, and so probably
 >  terminfo, is that that is backwards.
 >  
 >  That's what allows 'continuation' (tc=) to work, define
 >  whatever makes this entry first, then add everything from
 >  another entry, and the specific entries (coming first) are
 >  used in preference to later ones which belong to the other,
 >  similar, terminal.
 
 Perhaps the syntax for 'use' is different.
 
 Anyway, the behaviour is inconsistent in itself (because it changes
 when kitty+setal is added compared to before), and different to what
 ncurses' terminfo does.
  Thomas