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commit 184a749ff9fe38191bf0ef463fb844d967cdfe6e
parent 2e8c362e34955e522bd81ba32c41a973af098295
Author: Marc André Tanner <mat@brain-dump.org>
Date:   Wed, 11 Nov 2015 22:51:10 +0100

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.

Diffstat:
M
ui-curses.c
 | 
7
+++++--

1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git 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();