* WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
@ 2022-01-27 6:00 Jeffrey Walton
2022-01-27 6:15 ` Junio C Hamano
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jeffrey Walton @ 2022-01-27 6:00 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Git List
Hi Everyone,
I needed to install Git on Ubuntu 8. Git seems to work Ok for most
task, but this is unusual:
$ git diff
WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
- (press RETURN)
Here's the terminal:
$ echo $TERM
xterm-256color
It seems like loss of colors on an old platform is not that important.
However, the message being printed creates an actionable item that
needs attention. I think no message would be a better option.
Jeff
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* Re: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
2022-01-27 6:00 WARNING: terminal is not fully functional Jeffrey Walton
@ 2022-01-27 6:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-27 7:05 ` Jeffrey Walton
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Junio C Hamano @ 2022-01-27 6:15 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Jeffrey Walton; +Cc: Git List
Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> writes:
> I needed to install Git on Ubuntu 8. Git seems to work Ok for most
> task, but this is unusual:
>
> $ git diff
> WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
> - (press RETURN)
>
> Here's the terminal:
>
> $ echo $TERM
> xterm-256color
A short answer. You are using "less" as the pager, but it is not
working with your terminal. Likely reason is perhaps you are
missing terminfo/termcap database entry for that terminal.
I have working xterm-256color, so
$ TERM=xterm-256color less README.md
works as expected, but using a (bogus) terminal that no system would
have ever heard of, e.g.
$ TERM=no-such-terminal-exists less README.md
results in exactly the symptom you are observing.
Something to try quickly would be:
$ export TERM=vt100; less README.md
As the termcap/terminfo entry for vt100 is usually more widely
available, this may unblock you.
> It seems like loss of colors on an old platform is not that important.
> However, the message being printed creates an actionable item that
> needs attention. I think no message would be a better option.
You would want to redirect it to folks who work on "less" ;-)
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* Re: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
2022-01-27 6:15 ` Junio C Hamano
@ 2022-01-27 7:05 ` Jeffrey Walton
2022-01-27 18:44 ` Junio C Hamano
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jeffrey Walton @ 2022-01-27 7:05 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Junio C Hamano; +Cc: Git List
On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 1:15 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I needed to install Git on Ubuntu 8. Git seems to work Ok for most
> > task, but this is unusual:
> >
> > $ git diff
> > WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
> > - (press RETURN)
> >
> > Here's the terminal:
> >
> > $ echo $TERM
> > xterm-256color
>
> A short answer. You are using "less" as the pager, but it is not
> working with your terminal. Likely reason is perhaps you are
> missing terminfo/termcap database entry for that terminal.
>
> I have working xterm-256color, so
>
> $ TERM=xterm-256color less README.md
>
> works as expected, but using a (bogus) terminal that no system would
> have ever heard of, e.g.
>
> $ TERM=no-such-terminal-exists less README.md
>
> results in exactly the symptom you are observing.
>
> Something to try quickly would be:
>
> $ export TERM=vt100; less README.md
>
> As the termcap/terminfo entry for vt100 is usually more widely
> available, this may unblock you.
>
> > It seems like loss of colors on an old platform is not that important.
> > However, the message being printed creates an actionable item that
> > needs attention. I think no message would be a better option.
>
> You would want to redirect it to folks who work on "less" ;-)
Oh, sorry about that.
Jeff
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* Re: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
2022-01-27 7:05 ` Jeffrey Walton
@ 2022-01-27 18:44 ` Junio C Hamano
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Junio C Hamano @ 2022-01-27 18:44 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Jeffrey Walton; +Cc: Git List
Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 1:15 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > I needed to install Git on Ubuntu 8. Git seems to work Ok for most
>> > task, but this is unusual:
>> >
>> > $ git diff
>> > WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
>> > - (press RETURN)
>> >
>> > Here's the terminal:
>> >
>> > $ echo $TERM
>> > xterm-256color
>> ...
>> Something to try quickly would be:
>>
>> $ export TERM=vt100; less README.md
>>
>> As the termcap/terminfo entry for vt100 is usually more widely
>> available, this may unblock you.
>>
>> > It seems like loss of colors on an old platform is not that important.
>> > However, the message being printed creates an actionable item that
>> > needs attention. I think no message would be a better option.
>>
>> You would want to redirect it to folks who work on "less" ;-)
>
> Oh, sorry about that.
No need to be sorry for that.
I seem to have these terminfo database entries for terminals whose
name begin with 'x':
$ /bin/ls /lib/terminfo/x
xterm
xterm-256color
xterm-color
xterm-debian
xterm-mono
xterm-r5
xterm-r6
xterm-vt220
xterm-xfree86
my suspicion is that you are lacking xterm-256color for some reason.
These usually come from ncurses-base package if I am not mistaken.
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