Read this <a href="http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=242150">post</a>. My versions are: <blockquote><p><pre> pts/6 barran@garth$ emerge -s ^eterm$ ^zsh$ (~) Searching... [ Results for search key : ^eterm$ ] [ Applications found : 2 ] * app-xemacs/eterm Latest version available: 1.13 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 106 kB Homepage: http://xemacs.org/ Description: Terminal emulation. * x11-terms/eterm Latest version available: 0.9.2-r3 Latest version installed: 0.9.2-r3 Size of downloaded files: 1,021 kB Homepage: http://www.eterm.org/ Description: A vt102 terminal emulator for X Searching... [ Results for search key : ^zsh$ ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * app-shells/zsh Latest version available: 4.0.6-r3 Latest version installed: 4.0.6-r3 Size of downloaded files: 2,131 kB Homepage: www.zsh.org/ Description: UNIX Shell similar to the Korn shell pts/6 barran@garth$ </pre></p></blockquote> However the problem is that there is no terminal definition (apparently) for Eterm: <blockquote><p><pre> barran@garth$ export TERM="xterm" pts/5 barran@garth$ export TERM="Eterm" (~) zsh: can't find terminal definition for Eterm barran@garth$ </pre></p></blockquote> Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run zsh from Eterm. 2. Set the PROMPT var to show some color and other stuff which would normally work. 3. See if backspace works properly. Actual Results: There are no colors. The right prompt is not showing. Backspace does not work properly. <blockquote> Portage 2.0.47-r8 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.dk/mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.linux.no/pub/gentoo/ " CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/ config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quickt ime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts svga tcltk java guile mysql X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt motif opengl mozilla cdr gtk2 -gnome -kde mbox alsa acpi dvd dga sasl" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe -m3dnow" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe -m3dnow" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-s -j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo-portage/" FEATURES="sandbox ccache" </blockquote> My versions are: <blockquote><p><pre> pts/6 barran@garth$ emerge -s ^eterm$ ^zsh$ (~) Searching... [ Results for search key : ^eterm$ ] [ Applications found : 2 ] * app-xemacs/eterm Latest version available: 1.13 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 106 kB Homepage: http://xemacs.org/ Description: Terminal emulation. * x11-terms/eterm Latest version available: 0.9.2-r3 Latest version installed: 0.9.2-r3 Size of downloaded files: 1,021 kB Homepage: http://www.eterm.org/ Description: A vt102 terminal emulator for X Searching... [ Results for search key : ^zsh$ ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * app-shells/zsh Latest version available: 4.0.6-r3 Latest version installed: 4.0.6-r3 Size of downloaded files: 2,131 kB Homepage: www.zsh.org/ Description: UNIX Shell similar to the Korn shell pts/6 barran@garth$ </pre></p></blockquote>
Sorry. I didn't know you can't use html tags :o) - how naive!
http://www.dreamind.de/files/zsh-stuff/zshrc.html does that zshrc help?
nope. No sane prompt shows at all. Only some crap and a '%' sign
It appears to be a typo/bug in /etc/termcap which belongs to sys-libs/libtermcap-compat. The entries regarding Eterm in that file is spelled "eterm". It should be "Eterm". I don't know if it is still you phoen][x who should have this assigned. View the forum post mentioned above to learn more.
Also when unmerging sys-libs/libtermcap-compat, /etc/termcap is not removed. I do not know whether this is a bug though.
>> Also when unmerging sys-libs/libtermcap-compat, /etc/termcap is not removed. >> I do not know whether this is a bug though. Thats the wanted behaviour. Portage does not remove files from /etc. Let me see how i can help you with the other issue. -phoen][x-
Seems that you've already managed to fix this yourself. I don't think it's a bug I can do much to prevent, but this and the forum posts are a good log for future people, so solving it is easy.
