From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 10:22:05 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Suggest to upgrade ncurses if Emacs aborts in tparam1. X-Git-Tag: emacs-21.2~208 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=292745ed8baca94527316f83317dbcc5770c6240;p=emacs.git Suggest to upgrade ncurses if Emacs aborts in tparam1. --- diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index ee12a0e3338..6cea2437877 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -217,6 +217,18 @@ This currently doesn't work with scroll-bar widgets (and we don't know a good way of implementing it with widgets). If Emacs is configured --without-toolkit-scroll-bars, C-mouse-2 on the scroll bar does work. +* Emacs aborts inside the function `tparam1'. + +This can happen if Emacs was built without terminfo support, but the +terminal's capabilities use format that is only supported by terminfo. +If your system has ncurses installed, this might happen if your +version of ncurses is broken; upgrading to a newer version of ncurses +and reconfiguring and rebuilding Emacs should solve this. + +All modern systems support terminfo, so even if ncurses is not the +problem, you should look for a way to configure Emacs so that it uses +terminfo when built. + * Colors are not available on a tty or in xterm. Emacs 21 supports colors on character terminals and terminal