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+title: 'Terminfo Is Useless and Outdated'
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+It takes literal decades to add capabilities to terminfo—the database that stores terminal compatibility.
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+I ran into a problem like this myself, and ended up checking if a file exists in the terminfo database, then setting TERM to xterm-256color, because Purdue macbines have a sufficiently old version of terminfo that it doesn't know what Foot is (the terminal I use) and that makes Vim mad.
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+There's gotta be a better way, right?