On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 10:41:46AM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote:

> > On my machine it creates ~/.config/lnav, not ~/.lnav, and removing the
> > ~/.config/lnav directory unfortunately doesn't change anything, it still
> > crashes early at startup.
> 
> it probably does funky things depending on $TERM.
> 
> it works fine within tmux where TERM=screen, it crashes in
> xfce4-terminal (where here TERM=xterm-256color) but works fine if i
> manually set TERM=xterm.
> 
> same thing with alacritty, it crashes if TERM=alacritty (the default)
> but works fine with 'TERM=xterm lnav'
> 
> you seem to be a guy with interest in low-level terminal stuff :) grep
> -r TERM yields many things in lnav's code... and there seem to be
> related issues upstream, cf https://github.com/tstack/lnav/issues/570
> and https://github.com/tstack/lnav/issues/1192 at least. But it shouldnt
> crash like this :)
> 
> in the meantime, here's a port of 0.12.2, still building here... it
> might give better results, or not.

This version does indeed solves the issues, it runs perfectly in the
terminals I previously tested with, and it exits gracefully in case
TERM is set to an unknown option:

$ TERM=puffy lnav
 error: unable to open TUI
 reason: the terminfo database could not be found

Looks good to me for import now, OK fcambus@.