[Gllug] Tab-complete and cursor keys in SSH sessions?

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Sun Sep 27 22:12:08 UTC 2009


On 27 Sep 2009, general spake thusly:
> Yes I have that, it's 2.2K and looks to be full of nonsense, or at least
> not text.

FWIW this is the compiled representation of a terminfo database entry.
You can decompile it into textual form with 'infocmp', and turn that
back into binary with the *obviously* related command 'tic'. (What
nutcase thought up these names, I've long wondered...)
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