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efaq: Termcap/Terminfo entries for Emacs

 
 6.4 Where is the termcap/terminfo entry for terminal type ‘emacs’?
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 The termcap entry for terminal type ‘emacs’ is ordinarily put in the
 ‘TERMCAP’ environment variable of subshells.  It may help in certain
 situations (e.g., using rlogin from shell buffer) to add an entry for
 ‘emacs’ to the system-wide termcap file.  Here is a correct termcap
 entry for ‘emacs’:
 
      emacs:tc=unknown:
 
    To make a terminfo entry for ‘emacs’, use ‘tic’ or ‘captoinfo’.  You
 need to generate ‘/usr/lib/terminfo/e/emacs’.  It may work to simply
 copy ‘/usr/lib/terminfo/d/dumb’ to ‘/usr/lib/terminfo/e/emacs’.
 
    Having a termcap/terminfo entry will not enable the use of full
 screen programs in shell buffers.  Use ‘M-x term’ for that instead.
 
    A workaround to the problem of missing termcap/terminfo entries is to
 change terminal type ‘emacs’ to type ‘dumb’ or ‘unknown’ in your shell
 start up file.  ‘csh’ users could put this in their ‘.cshrc’ files:
 
      if ("$term" == emacs) set term=dumb
 

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