ESR on dropping terminfo and curses from an old Unix game
Ariarule
30 points
1 comment
May 13, 2026
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The only time I touch terming these days is because something broke in my environment and the $TERM got set to "screen-256color" instead of "screen", and less and vim stop working. In my case, assuming a normal terminal would actually be more reliable.