README.md (955B)
1 This package represents the parent for all terminals. 2 3 In older versions of tcell we had (a couple of) different 4 external file formats for the terminal database. Those are 5 now removed. All terminal definitions are supplied by 6 one of two methods: 7 8 1. Compiled Go code 9 10 2. For systems with terminfo and infocmp, dynamically 11 generated at runtime. 12 13 The Go code can be generated using the mkinfo utility in 14 this directory. The database entry should be generated 15 into a package in a directory named as the first character 16 of the package name. (This permits us to group them all 17 without having a huge directory of little packages.) 18 19 It may be desirable to add new packages to the extended 20 package, or -- rarely -- the base package. 21 22 Applications which want to have the large set of terminal 23 descriptions built into the binary can simply import the 24 extended package. Otherwise a smaller reasonable default 25 set (the base package) will be included instead.