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Re: dte: remove curses and terminfo includes



On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 02:31:53PM +0000, Kevin Bloom wrote:
> Thomas, do you know if dte uses a vendored version of terminfo if you
> don't include it?

No, it doesn't do that.

Here's the whole entry from COMMIT_MSG:

Breaking changes:
- Removed support for linking to the system terminfo library. The
  terminfo database has only been used as a last resort source of
  information for several releases now. Most terminals that people
  are likely to be using already have built-in support in the editor,
  including several capabilities not available from terminfo. This is
  listed as a breaking change because it may break support for a few
  archaic hardware terminals (primarily those that aren't ECMA-48
  compatible or whose terminfo strings contain mandatory padding).

 Thomas


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