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MsgEd TE does neither use the curses library for most of its tasks, nor
does it make use of termcap or terminfo data bases. The way that
MsgEd TE uses to create its full screen interface is to emit ANSI x3.64
character control sequences. This is a common subset of control sequences
that is recognised, among others, by VT52, VT100, VT200 and higher VTxxx
terminals, by xterm, by the FreeBSD and the Linux console, by the OS/2 telnet
program, and others. In order to enable special features like color support
based on the TERM
variable, you can use IF
constructs in the
configuration file, as shown in the sample configuration file.
I have tested this on several Unix boxes and it worked remarkably well. For optimum results, you should use the scheme.004 color scheme file found in the doc/ resp. samples/ subdirectory. If you have problems seeing the cursor in an xterm, you should start the xterm with the option ‘-cr white’.
If the display is corruped by system log daemon messages or similar, you can at any time during program execution press Ctrl-L to redraw the screen.