tmux-256color $TERM unsupported

[Doron Behar]

I use Lf which depends on termbox. I set in my .tmux.conf the following:

set -g default-terminal tmux-256color

Using Rxvt-unicode and tmux inside it, get this error when starting lf:

2019/10/06 16:34:09 initializing termbox: termbox: error while reading terminfo data: termbox: unsupported terminal

If I use a different terminal emulator (say, Alacritty), I don't get this error.

If I use the following in my .tmux.conf:

set -g default-terminal screen-256color

In either urxvt / alacritty, I don't get that error from lf.

To summarize, only the combination of:

• urxvt
• tmux
• $TERM=tmux-256color (because of set -f terminal-default tmux-256color in .tmux.conf)

Causes the error.

I wouldn't mind that much if italics would have worked with tmux inside urxvt when using screen-256color $TERM/`default-terminal. Sfee this FAQ: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/blob/2.1/FAQ#L355-L383

Running env TERM=screen-256color lfdoesn't raise the error but any inner child process of lf reads TERM=screen-256color in it's environment. This means that this env wrapping wouldn't be much helpful because I often use Lf to browse files and edit them, expecting to see italics.

Would solving this be easy by just adding an entry here:

termbox-go/terminfo.go

Lines 113 to 126 in 5a49b82

 compat_table := []struct { 
 	partial string 
 	keys    []string 
 	funcs   []string 
 }{ 
 	{"xterm", xterm_keys, xterm_funcs}, 
 	{"rxvt", rxvt_unicode_keys, rxvt_unicode_funcs}, 
 	{"linux", linux_keys, linux_funcs}, 
 	{"Eterm", eterm_keys, eterm_funcs}, 
 	{"screen", screen_keys, screen_funcs}, 
 	// let's assume that 'cygwin' is xterm compatible 
 	{"cygwin", xterm_keys, xterm_funcs}, 
 	{"st", xterm_keys, xterm_funcs}, 
 } 

?