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| author | Marc André Tanner <mat@brain-dump.org> | 2015-11-11 22:51:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Marc André Tanner <mat@brain-dump.org> | 2015-11-11 22:51:10 +0100 |
| commit | 43605fded457cec954600b688d54242341eedc7c (patch) | |
| tree | 557fc22498b2b77e2fffb2f2d699289a44bbb0c1 | |
| parent | 131a635c94c2db293a11aa9fbe5f1c2877623964 (diff) | |
| download | vis-43605fded457cec954600b688d54242341eedc7c.tar.gz vis-43605fded457cec954600b688d54242341eedc7c.tar.xz | |
ui: fall back to xterm-256color if term initialization fails
This improves behaviour for unknwown/unrecognized terminals
as is the case for self contained binaries built with
"make standalone" which only includes a fixed set of terminal
descriptions.
Of course the terminal capabilities won't match, which will
likely cause some display issues.
| -rw-r--r-- | ui-curses.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ui-curses.c b/ui-curses.c index 30cf516..4b8387b 100644 --- a/ui-curses.c +++ b/ui-curses.c @@ -1079,8 +1079,11 @@ Ui *ui_curses_new(void) { char *term = getenv("TERM"); if (!term) term = "xterm"; - if (!newterm(term, stderr, stdin)) - goto err; + if (!newterm(term, stderr, stdin)) { + snprintf(uic->info, sizeof(uic->info), "Warning: unknown term `%s'", term); + if (!newterm("xterm-256color", stderr, stdin)) + goto err; + } start_color(); use_default_colors(); raw(); |