Re: TERMINFO_DIRS

On Sat, 18 Oct 2025, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> What do you think of the attached diff for terminfo(5)?
>
> +.It Ev TERMCAP
> +.Xr termcap 3
> +file that will be used if it matches
> +.Ev TERM .
> +.It Ev TERMINFO
> +.Nm
> +file that will be used if it matches
> +.Ev TERM .
>

As the `Fetching Compiled Descriptions' sub-section, just previous, explains,
those two are files only if they start with `/'. Else, they're treated as
containing a termcap/terminfo entry. (This is how window(1) operates: it exports
its own capability strings in a TERMCAP var. to the programs it runs.)

-RVP