Re: TERMINFO_DIRS

RVP <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.current
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Sat, 18 Oct 2025, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> Am I using TERMINFO_DIRS wrong or is it broken?
>
>    export TERM=xterm-direct
>    export TERMINFO_DIRS=/usr/share/misc
>    zsh: can't find terminal definition for xterm-direct
>
> i.e. zsh is fine with xterm-direct as TERM until I set TERMINFO_DIRS
> to /usr/share/misc, which is the default directory of the terminfo
> file.
>

TERMINFO_DIRS is misnamed. You have to supply a colon-separated list of
*files* (w/o the .cdb extension).

TERMINFO_DIRS=/usr/share/misc/terminfo:/some/path/file1:/ano/ther/file2

-RVP
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