From 3c418e5471304e6c41e612d417e9dfe73c6cc4d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 10:15:04 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Suggest to upgrade ncurses if Emacs aborts inside tparam1. --- etc/PROBLEMS | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 3917d68bb56..c76f62d833d 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 -- 2.39.2